Tomorrow at monuments grand and plain, towns big and small, communities will be celebrating the commitment of all veterans, living and dead. Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Here an untitled welded metal sculpture by Bruce West sits in the glow of traffic lights and a nearly full moon at Lynnwood's tiny Veterans Park
The armistice of WWI began on the eleventh hour of the eleventh month, 1918. While the fighting ended the Treaty of Versailles was not signed until June 28, 1919. The eleventh of November was a legal holiday in a number of states following the end of WWI, but it wasn't until 1938 that Congress made it a federal holiday - Armistice Day. Ironically, only one holiday - a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace - was observed before WWII began. The holiday was originally set aside to honor veterans of WWI, but in 1954 November 11th became a federal holiday to honor American veterans of all wars.
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