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November 11 — thanking everyone who served, living and dead.
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The guns of the First World War stopped at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, in 1918. The anniversary was called Armistice Day. In 1954 the United States renamed it Veterans Day so that it honored everyone who had served in any war, not only that one. Much of the Commonwealth still keeps it as Remembrance Day, with a poppy.
Memorial Day is for the dead; this one is for the living. Somebody your child knows has probably served.
What a family can actually do
Write a letter. An actual letter, on paper, to somebody who served. There is nothing else to buy.
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