{"id":171,"date":"2008-11-06T19:12:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T19:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2022-01-03T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:40:48","slug":"veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/11\/06\/veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Armistice Day, 1918<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ninety years ago this week, at 11:00 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month, the War to End All Wars, the Great War, now called the First World War, ended.\u00a0 The following year, President Wilson proclaimed Armistice Day, and by 1921, Congress declared the federal holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Kingston celebrated news of the armistice with &#8220;the ringing of bells and the blowing of whistles&#8221; according to the<em> Old Colony Memorial<\/em> on the following Friday, November 15, 1918. Businesses and schools closed and patriotic speeches and songs filled the air. The next day, an impromptu victory parade &#8220;traversed the principal streets of town&#8230;followed by a mass meeting on the Town Green.&#8221; Here are two views of the parade.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Riders in the Victory Parade, October 18, 1919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/eve-98-0028-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Riders in the Victory Parade, October 18, 1919\" width=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riders in the Victory Parade, October 18, 1919<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Women marchers in the victory parade, October 18, 1919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/eve-98-0027-lhr.jpg\" alt=\"Women marchers in the victory parade, October 18, 1919\" width=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women marchers in the victory parade,\u00a0October 18, 1919<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A more formal recognition of the war&#8217;s end took place in 1919. In March, Town Meeting appropriated $500 to celebrate. An appointed \u201cWelcome Home Committee,\u201d visited all returning servicemen and nurses, presenting each with a bronze token of appreciation for service to town and country. In October, a special \u201cWelcome Home Day\u201d was held with a parade, band concert, decorations, speeches and a turkey supper at the Town House.<\/p>\n<p>Ninety years later, Veterans Day honors all who served. Thank a veteran when you have the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armistice Day, 1918 Ninety years ago this week, at 11:00 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month, the War to End All Wars, the Great War, now called the First World War, ended.\u00a0 The following year, President Wilson proclaimed Armistice Day, and by 1921, Congress declared the federal holiday. Kingston celebrated news of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2008\/11\/06\/veterans-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Veterans Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55,184],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-celebrations","tag-parades"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22004,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/22004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}