Today has significance in history.
World War I ("the Great War") ended at 11:00 a.m. on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 (11/11/18). WWI was a horrible experience: 14 million died, many in agony from wounds inflicted by new, terrible weapons (e.g., mustard gas).
The following year U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11th "Armistice Day" to honor the end of that War and the soldiers who served in it. Later, in 1954 our Congress changed the holiday to "Veterans Day" to honor all military veterans. Unlike Memorial Day which remembers veterans who died in service, Veterans Day honors everyone who served whether they survived or not.
My dad fought in Korea (early 1950s) and got accelerated naturalized citizenship as a reward.
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