7th annual Jefferson County Veterans Celebration, November 3

An Armistice is an agreement to stop all fighting, in other words a truce. The truce I write of was signed on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month ending World War I in 1918 to be known as Armistice Day. Around the year 1953, people began calling it Veterans Day. This was in thanks and remembrance to the Veterans in their towns. Congress decided to change the day to an occasion to honor those who had served America in all wars. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill pro