For those who are not familiar with the origin of Veterans Day,
it was originally Armistice Day which was celebrated
for the end of “the war to end all wars”
World War I.
World War I was at the time the most costly in human loss in human history,
with over 40 million civilians and combatants lost
in the short period from 1914 to 1918.
Great amounts of national capital was lost putting many nations into overwhelming
debt while other nations were torn apart.
Tsarist Russia being one of those when the communist under Lenin,
a German plant to overthrow the Tsar, and knock Russia out of the war,
murdered the Tsar, his family, and thereafter hundreds of millions of other lives
lost throughout the world during the century that followed the end of
“The War to end all Wars”.
The end of WW1 created national alignments that led
to WWII when another 54 million
lives were lost.
Armistice Day was changed to Veterans Day
on October 8, 1954 by President Eisenhower.
Armistice Day, or now Veterans Day
was set to be on November 11 as that was when WW1
which ended on the 11th hour of
November 11, 1918.
Let us not forget those who gave their all so that we may continue
to be the nation that we are.
Let us also remember in our own daily lives that
conflict and war is not the best answer.
