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Armistice Day, which overlaps with Remembrance Day and Veterans Day, is celebrated every year on 11 November to commemorate the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918. While this official date to mark the end of the war reflects the ceasefire on the Western Front, hostilities continued in other regions, especially across the former Russian Empire and in parts of the old Ottoman Empire.

The date was declared a national holiday in many allied nations, to commemorate those members of the armed forces who were killed during war. An exception is Italy, where the end of the war is commemorated on 4 November, the day of the Armistice of Villa Giusti.

After World War II, the name of the holiday was changed to Veterans Day in the United States and to Remembrance Day in the countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Armistice Day remains an official holiday in France and Belgium.

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11/11/2012, is Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day in Canada

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Thank you all veterans for your service to our beloved country.

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Originally posted by RainCatcher:

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Thank you all veterans for your service to our beloved country.

Ditto from the Northwest.

Great masthead Bill, thanks for all your work.

Here is how we honor our troops every day in the great Northwest. Taps in Tacoma