HAPPY VETERANS DAY AMERICA (and REMEMBRANCE DAY CANADA, AUSTRALIA AND the UK)!!!!

As a kid...this day was more for the day off from school and the discounts/deals and free stuff (YAY FOR COMMERCIALISM!!!) then anything else. However, being older and married to military, I can see the importance/history behind the day more clearly now. 

It all started 100 (and one) years ago when on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, WW1 warriors stopped fighting and claimed Armistice Day. It took 7 months to sign the treaty to end the war, a few more years (1926) to be recognized by congress as the end and then a few more (1938) to be deemed a federal holiday. In the 50s (1954) the Veterans organization thought to recognized all Veterans vs. just WW1, (due to having another major 2 wars fought) thus the term "VETERANS DAY" was approved. Confusion was then abreast as the Bill that passed several Federal Holidays-1968, though it skipped it's start in celebrating to 1971- (in the act of wanting more holiday fun and all it economically entails) claimed Veterans day to be honored in October (the whole fourth Mondays thing) that no one actually recognized and thus was amended AGAIN (for the, like, fourth and FINAL time), 1975, to it's right day of  11/11!!!

So don't forget to remember and thank all those that served!!!!