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Veterans Day 2011

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Remembrance Day-Armistice Day-Veterans Day

Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Which makes it both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the [...]

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Veterans Day 2009

Veterans Day 2009 has a different meaning this year as we look back only days ago to the Fort Hood shooting. The first Armistice Day was on Nov. 11, 1919, and it marked the one year anniversary of the end of World War I. It is what many proclaimed, with an optimism that turned out [...]

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Americas Last WWI Veteran Frank Woodruff Buckles Age 107

Veteran Frank Woodruff Buckles considered it his duty to represent his fellow soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day. Frank Woodruff Buckles, age 107 is Americas last WWI Veteran. Frank said, “it was his duty to represent his fallen soldiers. “I have to, because I’m the last living member of Americans who fought in [...]

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