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Veterans Day Research Paper

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Veterans Day is a day to celebrate. You really can not fully celebrate Veterans Day until you know the history behind Veterans Day, and the meaning of why we celebrate or Veterans on November 11. Veterans Day started November 11, 1919. This date also represents the one year anniversary of the stop of violence of World War I. Veterans Day in 1919 was called Armistice Day. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day. In 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Holidays Bill, which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to every fourth Monday in October. The first year we celebrated Veterans Day on this date was 1971, but in 1975 President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day

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