{"id":133404,"date":"2022-11-11T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=133404"},"modified":"2022-11-11T05:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T10:18:37","slug":"veterans-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=133404","title":{"rendered":"Veteran&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-133405 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vets.png?resize=300%2C202&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vets.png?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vets.png?resize=493%2C333&amp;ssl=1 493w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vets.png?resize=768%2C518&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/vets.png?w=1184&amp;ssl=1 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Veterans Day originated as \u201cArmistice Day\u201d on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 making it an annual observance, and it became a national holiday in 1938. Sixteen years later, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation changing the name to Veterans Day to honor all those who served their country during war or peacetime.<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain, France, Australia and Canada also commemorate the veterans of World War I and II on or near November 11th: Canada has Remembrance Day, while Britain has Remembrance Sunday celebrated on the second Sunday of November.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, an official wreath-laying ceremony is held each Veterans Day at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/dedication-of-the-tomb-of-the-unknowns\">Tomb of the Unknown Soldier<\/a>\u00a0in Arlington National Cemetery, while parades and other celebrations are held in states around the country.<\/p>\n<p>For all that have and those who are, thank you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Day originated as \u201cArmistice Day\u201d on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 making it an annual observance, and it became a national holiday in 1938. Sixteen years later, then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation changing the name to Veterans Day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[442,410,96,74,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-bravo-zulu","category-holidays","category-the-warrior-code","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-yHG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}