Veterans Day was first officially celebrated in the U.S. on Nov. 11, 1919, to commemorate the first anniversary of the armistice of World War I, the “war to end all wars.”
That description proved short-lived, as more than 600,000 Americans have died in military conflicts since. Life marches on, however, and this Nov. 11 the U.S. will pay its annual tribute to the more than 1 million people who have died fighting for the country since the Revolutionary War, and the millions more who served and…
