Veteran's Day holds special meaning for me as I spent 20 years as an Air Force wife. We traveled the world but there is certainly no place like the good old USA. I started working with VA clients at our last duty station in Little Rock, AR. in 1983. I was fortunate to have obtained training directly from VA. I enjoy working with Veteran's and can guide them on all programs available in today's mortgage market.
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A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to his country for an amount of 'up to and including my life'.
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The Origins of Veteran's Day
In 1921, an unknown World War I American soldier was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This site, on a hillside overlooking the Potomac River and the city of Washington, D.C., became the focal point of reverence for American's veterans.
Similar ceremonies occurred earlier in England and France, where an unknown soldier was buried in each nation's highest place of honor. These memorial gestures all took place on November 11, giving universal recognition to the celebrated ending of World War I fighting at 11 a.m., November 11, 1918. (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month). The day became known as Armistice Day. Later in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1947, Raymond Weeks organized at "National Veterans Day" which included festivities honoring all Veterans. President Eisenhower signed a proclamation in 1954 proclaiming November 11th as Veteran's Day.
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