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Veterans Day, at one time Armistice Day in commemeration of the signing of the Cease-fire ending Globe War We, is the day of remembrance of the ending of World War I. In the United States it is celebrated as a federal holiday on November 11. Veterans Day has been found annually on this date since 1978, except for the brief time whenever it was celebrated on the quaternary Monday of October. As a result World War II, the title of the holiday was changed (enacted June One, 1954) to Veterans Day to honor people world health organization died altogether Western wars. the day has since evolved to primarily exist as a period of observance residing veterans world health organization keep around served in the military machine when you took wartime or even peacetime, part due to competition by owning Memorial Day, which primarily honors the dead. Numerous nations in a British Commonwealth observe a similar occasiin on November 11, Remembrance Day.
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