US Honor Members of Armed Forces

U.S. President Barack Obama will join millions of Americans in observing the annual Veterans Day holiday Monday.Mr. Obama will host a breakfast at the White House for a group of military veterans and their families, and will later participate in a traditional wreath laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. The holiday was first observed in the United States 1919 as Armistice Day, marking the day one year earlier, November 18, 1918, when the U.S. and its allies reached a formal...

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