Healthy Home Newsletter November 2018- Volume XVI, Issue 11

November 2018 - Volume XVI, Issue 11
Remembrance Day: November 11
Also named Armistice Day, this holiday was created to remember
those that fell during World War I – which ended at 11 am on
November 11, 1918. It became Veterans Day (US) in 1954 and
expanded to honor and remember veterans of all wars.
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The earliest memorial services honored unidentified soldiers
killed in battle. The idea for the Tomb of the Unknowns originated
with a British chaplain serving in France who came across a grave
with a crude wooden cross inscribed with the following words:
An unknown British soldier of the Black Watch.
The clergyman made arrangements for the remains to be returned
to England, where on Armistice Day in 1920 they were laid to rest in
Westminster Abbey. The French honored their unknown dead at the
Arc de Triumphe. A similar practice was proposed by an American
general for unidentified American soldiers. In 1921, the body of an
unknown soldier was interred in a tomb built in Arlington National
Cemetery in Virginia. Today, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is
one of Arlington's most popular sites. It bears the words:
Here Rests In Honored Glory an
American Soldier Known But To God.
The nation honors its war dead with special services at the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier. Those in attendance observe two minutes of
silence, followed by the playing of taps. A wreath is then placed at the
tomb, which houses the graves of three unknown Americans who
fought in War World I, World War II, and the Korean War. A wreath
is also placed at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Thanksgiving Around The World
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in several
countries including Canada, the United States, some of the Caribbean
islands, Japan, Germany, Grenada, Korea and Liberia. Though not
officially celebrated, its popularity is growing in Britain as a new
survey revealed one in six British people now celebrates
Thanksgiving.
It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the
harvest and of the preceding year. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the
second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of
November in the United States, and around the same part of the year
in other countries. Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in
religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a
secular holiday as well.
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