Veterans Day

Veterans Our Hero’s As you know Veterans Day is on November 11. There are many reasons why we should honor veterans every year. This essay is going to be three reasons why I think we should honor them. They are willing to give up their lives for their country, willing to give up some of their freedom to protect the lives of people, and have to deal with the problems that come after they have served. They are willing to give up their lives for their country. Usually when someone joins the military

Veterans Day Veterans day is one of the greatest holidays of the year. This is the holiday that honors all the brave soldiers who have fallen too give us our freedom. There are many veterans alive and dead who have served our country. There are two veterans that come to mind every time this holiday comes around. Those two veterans are my great grandfather and my grandfather. My great grandfather served in world war 11. My grandfather served as a navy ship captain he was not fighting for our

Veterans Day is a national holiday to commemorate fallen and current men and women for serving our country. One year after The Great War, November 11 was declared as Armistice Day by President Wilson. It officially became a holiday on June 1, 1954. Then later the name was changed to ‘Veterans Day’ on October 8th (Office of Public Affairs). From then on it was a widely celebrated holiday. People were let off work/ school to come together with their families to honor people who sacrifice themselves

Veterans are people that have battled in a war for their nation. Some tragically, aren't even alive any longer. In the the wars, veterans have stuck together as a group against the people who battled our nation. We are a united countery, and veterans have made it conceivable by securing us. Veterans Day is a day to respect every one of those people who have died for our nation. Veterans have given their time, mettle, boldness, lives, and quality for us and this nation. If not for the veterans, we

Well to begin, Veterans Day is a day to celebrate all the strong and brave U.S. veterans and victims of the World War 1, who have risked their lives for our freedom and safety today. Now on November 11, we as americans publicly celebrate this holiday on the anniversary of the end of the war. It is a time to ponder and really think about how far we have came in American History, and how much we have accomplished in a world filled with so much hate and crime. Instead of war, we fight for world peace

Ismaelia Alba 3rd hour Veterans Day: Honoring Those Who Fought for our Freedom There have been many great wars in history of The United States of America, and these loyal, hard working and aging soldiers have come to be called veterans. A veteran is someone who has served or is serving in the armed forces. They are honored on November, 11 every year. That's how much they mean to us. We honor them because they risk their lives saving ours. They should be noticed for all their sacrifices. They should

The importance of Veterans Day On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War. Commemorated as Armistice Day beginning the following year, November eleventh became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. It is now a holiday dedicated to American Veterans of all wars. It is important to celebrate Veterans Day to remember our military

Veterans Day in America should be a day that is more celebrated. Many people don’t give a second thought to those who have literally put their lives on the line to keep this country free. I feel like in order to honor those who have served and those who were lost in battle we need to keep our country educated. War is not happy, it’s not pretty; it’s painful and gruesome and we should educated our children and current generations about the risks our troops have taken for us and for the freedom of

Veterans Day Matters “Only the dead have seen the end of war” -Plato. On Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of WW1. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. To me Veterans Day should be celebrated to honor veterans because they fought and died for our freedom, went through crazy experiences, and fight for people they do not know. Veterans should be shown more respect from citizens because they fought and died

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