Veteran day mean to me that it is a day to be proud that you and your family is still here because the brave men and woman fight for you to be here and I know because my grandpapa and his family in the war and my brother is in the war in Iran so sum of all going to the war and fight for you and I freedom today so we going to fight on till freedom is won
On the 11th hour of the 11 day of the 11th month of 1918 an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, was declared between the allied nations and Germany in the first world war, then known as “ the great war” as armistice day beginning the following year November 11th became a legal federal holiday in the united states in 1938. In the aftermath of World War 2 and Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars Veterans Day is a public holiday held on the anniversary of the end of World War 1
Eisenhower gives famous "domino theory" speech
President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a "domino" effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called "domino theory" dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade.
By early 1954, it was clear to many U.S. policymakers that the French were failing in their attempt to re-establish colonial control in Indochina (Vietnam), which they lost during World War II when the Japanese took control of the area. The Vietnamese nationalists, led by the communist Ho Chi Minh, were on the verge of winning a