Thursday, November 06, 2014

Veterans Day events slated in communities in New Jersey and Lehigh Valley

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/events/index.ssf/2014/11/veterans_day_events_slated_in.html#incart_river

FROM EXPRESS TIMES

Veterans Day originated as Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, which was the first anniversary of the end of World War I. It would continue to be called Armistice Day until President Dwight Eisenhower officially changed it in 1954.

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