Yesterday was Veterans Day (but the national holiday is today), and The Housing Chronicles Blog, as well as MetroIntelligence, would like to
thank our veterans for their sacrifices on behalf of the U.S.
So just what is the history of Veterans Day? World War I – known at the time as “The Great
War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28,
1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France.
However, fighting ceased seven months earlier 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. For that
reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end
all wars.” (Read more...)
