Celebrate Veteran's Day!!

I hope this is not minded by anyone as I know we are privileged with international admins here on AA.

This is a courtesy message, not just today really, to keep in mind all the service people past, present, and shortly to be, that we thank them for their sacrifice.

The majority of the ages volunteered for their post as it is the first line met to uphold our, the U.S. of A's way of life.

Please take the time today or any day for that matter to thank directly anyone you know that has served, this includes those that have been DRAFTED. Call your loved ones and merely say thank you.

Educate your children or young ones about what this day means, not only in the past, but even now. It's an important and necessary acknowledgment to have a basic understanding that our service people are in the direct line of fire.

Offer to shake the hand of a service person. Anyone in fatigues, just offer your hand as a simple thanks.

Thanks to all and hoping a safe return to all those that are abroad.

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Armistice Day Becomes Veterans Day

World War I officially ended on June 28, 1919, with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans.
In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observance to its traditional date.
Tomb of the Unknowns

Official, national ceremonies for Veterans Day center around the Tomb of the Unknowns.
To honor these men, symbolic of all Americans who gave their lives in all wars, an Army honor guard, the 3d U.S. Infantry (The Old Guard), keeps day and night vigil.
At 11 a.m. on November 11, a combined color guard representing all military services executes "Present Arms" at the tomb. The nation's tribute to its war dead is symbolized by the laying of a presidential wreath and the playing of "Taps."
Unknown Soldier Identified

On Memorial Day (which honors U.S. service people who died in action) in 1958, two more unidentified American war dead, one from World War II and the other from the Korean War, were buried next the unknown soldier of World War I.
A law was passed in 1973 providing interment of an unknown American from the Vietnam War, but because of the improved technology to identify the dead, it was not until 1984 that an unidentified soldier was buried in the tomb.
In 1998, however, the Vietnam soldier was identified through DNA tests as Michael Blassie, a 24-year-old Air Force pilot who was shot down in May of 1972 near the Cambodian border. His body was disinterred and reburied by his family in St. Louis, Missouri.

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