American Legion Davidson-Haltom Post 157 in Henderson will host a grand celebration ceremony on Veterans Day, Tuesday morning, November 11, at 11 a.m. in the Council Chambers on the second floor of Henderson City Hall in Henderson, TN to honor all military veterans who sacrificed their time, and often their lives, to safeguard the United States of America. The public is encouraged to attend the one-hour ceremony.
While we will honor all veterans of our nation’s wars, this year’s ceremony titled “Honoring 250 Years of Service” will especially honor the soldiers celebrating 250 years of Army service to our country, the sailors celebrating 250 years of Navy service to our country, and the Marines celebrating 250 years of Marine Corps service to our country.
With music, proclamations, and videos, this ceremony will remind us all of what it means to be an American veteran and the value and cost of serving our great country.
Veteran’s Day celebrations originated as “Armistice Day” and were celebrated every year on November 11 to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France at 5:45 am. The cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.”
The Treaty of Versailles that officially ended hostilities between the Allied and Axis powers were not actually signed until June 28, 1919. But almost everyone worldwide celebrates the 1918 armistice that ended armed conflict as the end of World War I.
“Armistice Day” on November 11th became a national holiday beginning in 1938. In 1954 Congress changed the name to Veteran’s Day” and President Eisenhower issued the first Veteran’s Day Proclamation.
