To all those who have served or are serving in uniform, thank you!
Veteran's Day was originally known as Armistice Day and it celebrated the armistice (ceasefire, military agreement) signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany that ended the war. It took effect at 11 o'clock in the morning, the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.
After World War II, Armistice Day became Veteran's Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
In the UK, they have two minutes of silence to commemorate the roughly 20 million people who died in the war precisely at 11 o'clock.
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