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NOVEMBER 8-14, 2002
VOL. 40 NO. 44 SERVINGBETHPAGE, ISLANDTREES, OLDBETHPAGE, PLAINVEW, SEAFORDANDPLAINEDGE FORTY CENTS
To OUR VETERANS - THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE
VETERANS DAY
NOVEMBER 11, 2002
ORIGINALLY KNOWN AFTER WWI AS ARMISTICE DAY -
17MS day is
not to honor
war hut the
sacrifice
made by
others for
ourfreedom.
~ invitation ~
The Bethpage Community is Invited
To Attend
Veterans Day Services
at 11 o'clock Nov. 11,2002
At The Bethpage Community Park
(Park Will Be Open)
From 10:30 to 12 Noon
NOV. 11, 1918
The world
rejoiced and
celebrated.
After four years
of bitter war,
an armistice
was signed.
The war of all
wars was over.
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3t is now the eleventh, houz. ^Chis pause is to temind us that the houi ojj eleven has a tendez
significance to all o-fj us*
3t was on the eleventh day o-fj the eleventh month at the eleventh hout that the ^uns ceased
jitin$ and silence encompassed the earth. 3t was as oj eleven that the last man died in the battle,
Excerpt from Eleven O'Clock Ritual, American Legion Post
- HISTORY OF VETERANS DAY -
November 11 was set aside as Armistice Day in the United States, to remember the sacrifices that men and women made
during the war in order to ensure a lasting peace. On Armistice Day, soldiers who survived the war marched in a parade
through their home towns. Politicians and veteran officers gave speeches and held ceremonies of thanks for the peace they
had won.
Congress voted Armistice Day a legal holiday in 1938, twenty years after the war ended. But Americans realized that the
previous war would not be the last one. World War II began the following year, and nations great and small again participated
in a bloody struggle. After the Second World War, Armistice Day continued to be observed on N< ember 11.
In 1953 townspeople in Emporia, Kansas called the holiday Veterans Day in gratitude to the veterans in their town. Soon
after, Congress passed a bill introduced by a Kansas congressman renaming the national holid y to Veterans Day. In 1968
Congress passed a bill to be in effect in 1971 that stated that the nation would observe Veteran0 Day on the fourth Monday
of November. Veteran groups argued that the day had lost its meaning. In 1978 Congress passed another bill that made
November 11 officially Veterans Day again. On Nov. 11, 2002 we dedicate this day of observance to all the Veterans of
our Nation living and deceased who gave part of their lives to defend our Country, "The United States of America".
We also want to thank the many men and women who are in U.S. Service now for defending us today.
Courtesy of American Legion Auxiliary, Archie McCord Unit #86, Joan Poppe
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