Phillips County Museum News for November 18, 2015

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 1918 fighting between the Allied Nations and Germany ceased with an armistice. The “war to end all wars” was coming to an end! One year later President Wilson proclaimed November 11th, 1919 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day (what we now know as Veterans Day) saying “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportun...