Many people knows that we have a day off in Tuesday November 11. As you can see we have Veterans Day, so everyone have a day off.
We celebrate the day off without knowing why…..except thats its Veterans Day.
It all began in World War I, also known as “The Great War“ because it shocked many people around the world. The conflict was between the Allied Nation and Germany. The war began as an assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand declared by Gavrilo Princip. The war took from 28 July, 1914 to 11 November, 1918. The war had kill about 10 million soldiers and about 5 million Veterans in the allied nation. So its a day of a celebration for all the Veterans that sacricficed for their nation in World War I.
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