90th anniversary of Veterans Day
by Kathleen McCoy |
The Forty-Ninth State Fellows of the UAA Honors College call the attention of the University community to the 90th anniversary of Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The holiday honors the service of all U.S. veterans. The holiday began after World War I as Armistice Day, commemorating the official end of hostilities in that war at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918. Today it is noted in Britain and other European countries with two minutes of silence at that time; 13 million died in World War I. In the U.S., Congress changed the holiday to Veterans Day in 1954. It is a federal and state holiday in all states.
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