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A time of remembrance

Today is Veterans Day. Although we typically observe this occasion on Nov. 11, we celebrate… Today is Veterans Day. Although we typically observe this occasion on Nov. 11, we celebrate today because Nov. 11 fell on a Sunday this year.

Congress set aside this day in 1926 to honor those who served in World War I. At the time, it was the worst war in human history. Our country chose Nov. 11, the anniversary of the armistice in 1918, to remember the war

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