(DOWNLOAD) "Veterans Day" by American Diplomacy # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Veterans Day
- Author : American Diplomacy
- Release Date : January 29, 2010
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 46 KB
Description
An event of Eleven November 1918, the reason for today's gathering, has proven to be a national holiday with an identity crisis. Within a few decades of its establishment the original clarity regarding its name, what it memorialized, and whom it intended to honor became very unclear on all accounts. People of our age generally know that what we now call Veterans Day has something to do with the First World War--originally the Great War. The 11 November date of the holiday marks not the June 1919 peace treaty but the signing of the Armistice that ended armed conflict at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.