Lest We Forget

At 11 A.M. on November 11th, 1918, a peace treaty was signed bringing an end to the conflict we know today as World War I.

People notice and remember unusual coincidences like this. In the years following 1918 many nations chose to honor those who fought and died in the War with special ceremonies held on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

In the United States, on November 11, 1921, we created the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.

Our Congress made this day a national holiday. Originally, They called it Armistice Day to honor the end of the "war to end all wars".

"The world will very little note nor long remember what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. "It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated, here, to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, under God, have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
		Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 19, 1863