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It’s Veterans Day and NAWRB would like to thank and celebrate our nation’s veterans for their valiant service to our country. To commemorate our veterans we would like to provide a brief history of this holiday, including some little-known and interesting facts.
The first Armistice Day was celebrated on November 11, 1919 to commemorate the armistice between the U.S. and Germany ending World War I a year prior. The holiday celebrated veterans of the First World War. In May 1954 a bill was passed expanding the holiday to celebrate veterans of all wars, and the bill was amended six days later officially changing the name to Veterans Day.
From 1971 to 1977 Veterans Day was celebrated on the fourth Monday of October in accordance with the Uniform Holiday Bill. In 1978 the holiday was moved back to November 11.
The correct spelling of Veterans Day does not include an apostrophe, neither before nor after the s. The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has stated this is because the day doesn’t belong to veterans; it is a day to honor active and retired servicemen and women.
There are approximately 22 million veterans in the United States, 1.6 million of which are women. California is home to more veterans than any other state in the country. There are approximately 50,000 homeless veterans in the U.S.
According to the 2012 Survey of Business Owners (SBO), veteran women-owned businesses are the fastest-growing enterprises in the entrepreneurial community. As of 2012, there were 384,548 veteran women-owned businesses in the United States, an increase of 287,435 or 296 percent from 2007.
We hope you found this history of Veterans Day interesting and informative. Thank you to our nation’s veterans for the work they have done and sacrifices they have made for our country.