A veteran is someone who,

at one point in his life,
wrote a blank check
made payable to his country

for an amount of :
'up to and including my life'.



The Origins of Veteran’s Day

In 1921, an unknown World War I American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This site, on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River and the city of Washington, D.C., became the focal point of reverence for American’s veterans.

Similar ceremonies occurred earlier in England and France, where an unknown soldier was buried in each nation’s highest place of honor. These memorial gestures all took place on November 11, giving universal recognition to the celebrated ending of World War I fighting at 11 a.m., November 11, 1918. (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month). The day became known as Armistice Day. Later in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1947, Raymond Weeks organized at “National Veterans Day” which included festivities honoring all Veterans. President Eisenhower signed a proclamation in 1954 proclaiming November 11th as Veteran’s Day.