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Veterans Day
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On November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued a message to his countrymen on the first Armistice Day, in which he expressed what he felt the day meant to Americans:}}The United States Congress adopted a resolution on June 4, 1926, requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue annual proclamations calling for the observance of November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U.S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made November 11 in each year a legal holiday: "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'".File:Veterans Day parade in Baltimore, 2016.jpg|thumb|U.S. Army and Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets march during a Veterans Day parade in Baltimore, MarylandMarylandIn 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died in World War I. Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in 1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985. President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the "Father of Veterans Day".WEB,weblink Raymond Weeks: The Father of Veterans Day, UnrememberedHistory.com, Ken, Zurski, November 11, 2016, November 9, 2017, US Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26, 1954. It had been eight and a half years since Weeks held his first Armistice Day celebration for all veterans.JOURNAL, Carter, Julie, Where Veterans Day began, VFW Magazine, November 2003,weblinkweblink" title="archive.today/20120714045910weblink">weblink dead, July 14, 2012, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Congress amended the bill on June 1, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with "Veterans," and it has been known as Veterans Day since.WEB,  weblink History of Veterans Day, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, November 26, 2007,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20060728130527weblink">weblink July 28, 2006, dead, November 6, 2008, WEB, November 1, 2007,weblink The History of Veterans Day, history.army.mil, United States Army Center of Military History (CMH), October 3, 2003, November 12, 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111112073053weblink">weblink dead, The National Veterans Award was also created in 1954. Congressman Rees of Kansas received the first National Veterans Award in Birmingham, Alabama, for his support in offering legislation to make Veterans Day a federal holiday.WEB, 2020-11-11, VETERANS DAY â November 11, 2021,weblink 2021-03-17, NationalToday.com, en-US, Although originally scheduled for celebration on November 11 of every year, starting in 1971 in accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday of October (October 25, 1971;NEWS,weblink Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Associated Press, Older vets fight to keep Nov. 11 Armistice Day, November 11, 1971, 14, Northtown, October 23, 1972; October 22, 1973; October 28, 1974; October 27, 1975; October 25, 1976, and October 24, 1977). In 1978, it was moved back to its original celebration on November 11. While the legal holiday remains on November 11, if that date happens to be on a Saturday or Sunday, then federal government employees and a number of organizations will instead take the day off on the adjacent Friday or Monday, respectively.WEB,weblink Federal Holidays, US Office of Personnel Management, opm.gov, 2021-11-13,weblink November 10, 2021, live, mdy-all,Observance
File:Veterans Day poster 2018.jpg|thumb|upright|Poster for 2018 Veterans Day, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War IWorld War IBecause it is a federal holiday, some American workers and many students have Veterans Day off from work or school. When Veterans Day falls on a Saturday then either Saturday or the preceding Friday may be designated as the holiday, whereas if it falls on a Sunday it is typically observed on the following Monday. When it falls on the weekend many private companies offer it as a floating holiday where employees can choose some other day.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} A Society for Human Resource Management poll in 2010 found that 21 percent of employers planned to observe the holiday in 2011.WEB, 2011 Holiday Schedules SHRM Poll, shrm.org, Society for Human Resource Management, November 4, 2010,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20101204201227weblink">weblink dead, December 4, 2010, Legally, two minutes of silence is recommended to be observed at 2:11pm Eastern Standard Time.WEB, [USC02] 36 USC 145: Veterans Day,weblink uscode.house.gov, US House of Representatives, 2021-03-05, Non-essential federal government offices are closed. No mail is delivered. All federal workers are paid for the holiday; those who are required to work on the holiday sometimes receive holiday pay for that day in addition to their wages.WEB, Castro, Danilo, 2019-11-11, Is Sam's Club Open or Closed on Veterans Day 2019?,weblink 2021-03-17, Heavy.com, en-US,Armistice Day
In his Armistice Day address to Congress, Wilson was sensitive to the psychological toll of the lean War years: "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness," he remarked.BOOK, The Oxford companion to American food and drink, Smith, Andrew F., 2007, Oxford University Press, Inc, New York, 978-0-19-530796-2, 290,weblink November 12, 2010, As Veterans Day and the birthday of the United States Marine Corps (November 10, 1775) are only one day apart, that branch of the Armed Forces customarily observes both occasions as a 96-hour liberty period.{{cn|date=November 2019}}Election Day is a regular working day, while Veterans Day, which typically falls the following week, is a federal holiday. The National Commission on Federal Election Reform called for the holidays to be merged, so citizens can have a day off to vote. They state this as a way to honor voting by exercising democratic rights.NEWS, Sutter, John D., Election Day should be a federal holiday,weblink October 20, 2016, CNN.com, November 12, 2012,Spelling of Veterans Day
While the holiday is commonly printed as Veteran's Day or Veterans' Day in calendars and advertisements, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs website states that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling "because it is not a day that 'belongs' to veterans, it is a day for honoring all veterans."WEB,weblink Veterans Day Frequently Asked Questions, va.gov, Office of Public Affairs, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs, July 20, 2015, November 8, 2015,See also
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