Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2008.
I thank God today for the service and the sacrifice of 24.5 million veterans in America.
Today is Veteran’s Day. Formerly it was Armistice Day because on November 11, 1918 in a railway carriage in Compiengne Forest in France the Armistice with Germany was signed that ended World War I where 116,516 American soldiers died. (To read more, please click here.)