Veterans Day

At 11 o'clock in the morning on 11 November 1918, the First World War came to an end with the signing of an armistice and 3 hours later, all conflict ended. Every year, there is a moment of silence at this time for those who have died in that war and the wars that have followed but mostly just for the two world wars that we have had. Yet, the day we would call Armistice Day in Ireland and the UK is called Veterans Day in the United States. Why is that? Do they find the words Armistice Day too gloomy and prefer the more patriotic Veterans Day? Well, they did used to commemorate Armistice like everyone else but that all changed when President Dwight D. Eisenhower changed the name to Veterans Day officially.
He did this so all those who fought in all wars the US got involved in would be remembered which includes the two World Wars, the American Civil War, the wars in Korea and Vietnam as well as the Spanish-American War and any battle involving colonizing Americans vs the indigenous Native Americans over land control.

In 1968, during Lyndon B Johnson's presidency, the date of Veterans Day was swapped from 11 November to the fourth Monday in October as part of the Uniform Holidays Bill which became law in 1971 during Richard Nixon's presidency but that was changed back to 11 November by Gerald Ford on account of 11 November being too significant to ignore. On 11 November every year, Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC holds an annual memorial service for those who perished in war on duty which includes the 400,000 military dead that are buried in Arlington which also houses the graves of POTUS John F Kennedy and his wife Jaqueline, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, POTUS William Howard Taft (who started the presidential burial in Arlington Cemetery offering) and Irish born actress Maureen O'Hara who is buried there on account of her husband Charles F. Blair Jr being an Air Force Brigadier General in his life.