Veterans Day has its origins in Armistice Day, which was first acknowledged by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, on the first anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended fighting in World War I on ''the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." Congress made Armistice Day a national holiday on Nov. 11, 1938. Alvin King, a small business owner in Emporia, Kan ...
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