On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as "the Great War." Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars. [source]
Liberty and human rights face constant challenges from the forces of both secular and religious ideologies that value the Constitutional rights of the individual less than their political or religious beliefs. It is, ultimately, the men and women of the armed forces that hold those forces at bay. It is up to the citizens of this nation to ensure that no one person or no one party or no one ideology prevents our military from that mission of protection... either through the corruption of our government or deprivation of the military's needed resources.
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