Veterans Day: Why its celebrated and how veterans are honored

Veterans Day started at the end of World War I, when the allied nations and Germany agreed to an armistice, and it went into effect, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Because of this armistice, Nov. 11, 1918 became known as the end of ‘the war to end all wars’. In November 1919, President Woodrow Wilson declared November 11 as the first tribute of Armistice Day. In his commemorative…