Veterans Day 2018

Did you ever wonder why we celebrate Veterans Day on November 11th? The rest of the world celebrates Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the Armistice, but the United States already had it own form of that observance to commemorate those lost in the War Between the States. In fact, our country already had two if you count one for USA military and one for CSA military.

So as the rest of the world remembers those who fell in the Great War and subsequent conflicts, we honor all veterans. This year we should all give special notice of those who died in the 1914-1918 War. Alabama was one of the first states to send troops after our country entered the war.

There's no way our losses even approached those of Great Britain. Yet our country was nonetheless diminished. Undoubtedly there are those who still grieve for the relative they never knew in person. Wars won't end before our planet does, but let's hope we can diminish their impact. Now let's make it happen.