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Veterans Day Napkin Rings
Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed
annually on November 11, that honors military veterans; that is,
persons who served in the United States Armed Forces. It
coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and
Remembrance Day, celebrated in other countries that mark the
anniversary of the end of World War I; major hostilities of World
War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the
11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into
effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The
U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.
The United States Congress adopted a resolution on June 4, 1926,
requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue annual
proclamations calling for the observance of November 11 with
appropriate ceremonies. A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S.
Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of
November in each year a legal holiday: "a day to be dedicated to
the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and
known as 'Armistice Day'.
Veterans Day parade in Baltimore, Maryland, 2016
In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham,
Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all
veterans, not just those who died in World War I. Weeks led a
delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of
National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in
1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985. President
Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential
Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national
holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President
Reagan, determined Weeks as the "Father of Veterans Day."
U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a
bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight
D. Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May
26, 1954. It had been eight and a half years since Weeks held his
first Armistice Day celebration for all veterans. Congress
amended the bill on June 1, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with
"Veterans," and it has been known as Veterans Day since.
The National Veterans Award was also created in 1954.
Congressman Rees of Kansas received the first National Veterans
Award in Birmingham, Alabama for his support offering
legislation to make Veterans Day a federal holiday.
Although originally scheduled for celebration on November 11 of
every year, starting in 1971 in accordance with the Uniform
Monday Holiday Act, Veterans Day was moved to the fourth
Monday of October (Oct 25, 1971; Oct 23, 1972; Oct 22, 1973; Oct
28, 1974; Oct 27, 1975; Oct 25, 1976 and Oct 24, 1977). In 1978, it
was moved back to its original celebration on November 11. While
the legal holiday remains on November 11, if that date happens
to be on a Saturday or Sunday, then organizations that formally
observe the holiday will normally be closed on the adjacent Friday
or Monday, respectively.
Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day, a U.S.
public holiday in May; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all
U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who died
while in military service.
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