The Great War began in Europe in 1914, and by its end in 1918, 4.7 million Americans would serve in the conflict. More t ...
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November 11, 1918 - Armistice Day

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Nov. 11, 1918, the fighting between allied nations and Germany stopped. In what was first ...
Veterans Day on Nov. 11 has been a federal holiday since 1954, but it dates to the end of World War I more than a century ago.
In 1954, the 83rd U.S. Congress amended the 1938 act that had made Armistice Day a holiday, replacing the word "armistice" ...
It promised to be, the Daily Post and Record said, “the greatest day in modern history.” At first, though, nobody in ...
My father, Vincent, who was with the Army during WWII, told of how their mess halls in Europe regularly gave out food to the hungry kids that were looking for anything to eat.