Veterans Day (Poppy Day - Remembrance Day in the UK) is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans. It originated in 1919 when U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day.
In 1925 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed it a national holiday and congress approved it. But it wasn't until a shoe repair store owner in Kansas began campaigning for a day to honour all veterans that the day officially became Veterans Day.
A bill for the holiday was pushed through Congress and President Dwight Eisenhower signed it into law on May 26, 1954.
The United States has been in many major world conflicts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
In 1914 the United States joined Britain, France, and Russia in World War I against the triple alliance of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary. Just over 116,000 casualties (= bléssés)seen by the U.S. Since the Civil War, this was the United States highest number of war-borne casualties.
In 1918, at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, fighting ceased in World War I. Formerly known as Armistice Day, Veterans Day (November 11) is a day to honour veterans living and dead who have given so much to protect their country.
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