CS Monitor - why does this holiday land on November 11?
The idea of honoring US soldiers in November reaches back to the First World War, though we didn't call it Veterans Day back then.
VETERANS DAY: America's wartime vets, by the numbers
American troops made significant headway in 1918, rebuffing a German offensive along the western front and moving Allied forces deeper into enemy territory. By November, Germany had had enough. It agreed to a cease-fire, signing the official armistice at 5 a.m. on November 11. The treaty took effect six hours later. On the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month," as the saying goes, the world knew peace once again.
