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Good Thinking: Hail to the veterans
Posted By Janna On November 2, 2012 @ 4:37 pm In Church News | No Comments
by Dr. Don Kuehle
Ever heard of Armistice Day? Veterans Day? “Armistice” refers to a cessation of war, a temporary peace, a truce between enemies. A “veteran” is an old soldier, a seasoned fighter from some former war.
On June 4, 1929, at the end of World War I, the U.S. Congress passed the following legislation:
WHEREAS the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary,
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