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The Ernest Bowyer VFW Post 791 will host a Veteran’s Day Banquet on Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
A social hour will be held from 6pm - 7pm and a meal at 7pm for VFW and Auxiliary members.
Free membership dinner for all paid up 2014-2015 Post and Auxiliary members. Guests are welcome
($9.00 per plate). The guest speaker will be Jean Hunhoff, presenting after the meal.
A venue of flags will be on display in Memorial Park from 8am - 3pm with the Retreat of Colors at 4pm.
HISTORY OF VETERANS DAY
World War I – known
at the time as “The
Great War” - officially
ended when the Treaty
of
Versailles
was
signed on June 28,
1919, in the Palace of
Versailles outside the
town of Versailles,
France. However, fighting
ceased
seven
months earlier when
an armistice, or temporary cessation of
hostilities,
between
the Allied nations and
Germany went into
effect on the eleventh
hour of the eleventh
day of the eleventh
month. For that reason, November 11,
1918,
is
generally
regarded as the end of
“the war to end all
wars.”
In November 1919,
President Wilson proclaimed November 11
as the first commemoration of Armistice
Day with the following
words: “To us in
America, the reflec-
tions of Armistice Day
will be filled with
solemn pride in the
heroism of those who
died in the country’s
service and with gratitude for the victory,
both because of the
thing from which it
has freed us and
because of the opportunity it has given
America to show her
sympathy with peace
and justice in the
councils
of
the
nations…”
The original concept
for the celebration
was
for
a
day
observed with parades
and public meetings
and a brief suspension
of business beginning
at 11:00 a.m.
The United States
Congress officially recognized the end of
World War I when it
passed a concurrent
resolution on June 4,
1926,
with
these
words:
In Honor of
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Whereas the 11th of
November
1918,
marked the cessation
of the most destructive, sanguinary, and
far reaching war in
human annals and the
resumption by the
people of the United
States of peaceful relations
with
other
nations, which we
hope may never again
be severed, and
Whereas it is fitting
that the recurring
anniversary of this
date should be commemorated
with
thanksgiving
and
prayer and exercises
designed to perpetuate peace through
good will and mutual
understanding
between nations; and
Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven
of our States have
already
declared
November 11 to be a
legal
holiday:
To Our Men and
Women In Uniform...
past, present and future
God Bless You...And Thank You
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