Veterans Day is Nov. 11, the day set aside to thank and honor all those who served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces.
In Oregon, we thank and honor an estimated 240,000 men and 26,000 women across the state for their service during wartime and peacetime. More than one-third of the state’s overall veteran population served during the Vietnam War era, according to the Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
Veterans Day originally was called Armistice Day, first commemorated in 1918 at the end of World War I. The Allies and Germans signed the Armistice on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month…