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Subscribe to RSSFighting in World War I ended when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, was changed in June, 1954, when November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.
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Members of Boy Scouts of America Cub Scout pack 461, based at Joint Base Lewis McChord, place flags on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during Veterans Day observances, Nov. 11, 2010, in Olympia, Wash.
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This shot is better than most of the ones we voted on in the best photos of the week.
Cub Scouts getting a Real History legend at the Wall.Learning what the cost of freedom is. Dear Lord, Let them grow up in a world without any Wars!! !So all those warriors whose names are chiselled on the Wall,will not have not died in vain!