Happy Veterans Day - A Day to Commemorate.

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Retired veterans Sonya Bryson and 100 Year Old Robert McClintock sing the national anthem as the Tampa Bay Lightning celebrate Military Appreciation Night at Amalie Arena. Watch it -- You'll never forget it.

Veterans Day 2018 – Bells to ring 100 years after the end of WWI

Bells will ring out on military bases and in communities all over the world on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month to mark 100 years since the end of World War I.

People can observe the centenary of the conflict’s end by joining Bells of Peace — a Veterans Day event also happening at churches, universities, cemeteries, ships at sea and war memorials worldwide.

Bells will toll 21 times at 11 a.m. Sunday in all time zones — exactly 100 years since the armistice that ended the Great War — to honor the 4.7 million Americans who served and 116,516 who died in the conflict, according to the event’s sponsor, the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission. [The 21 tolls of the bell symbolize the nation’s highest honor. It is based on the 21-gun salute.]

“Two million of those men and women deployed overseas to the fight,” said Chris Isleib, a spokesman for the commission.

The goal is to enlist “the whole nation in the commemoration of the service of our WWI veterans,” said Betsy Anderson, who is coordinating Bells of Peace on behalf of the commission.

Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer has ordered bells tolled on warships and installations, and military leaders from other branches have similar plans.

The Navy hopes the commemoration gives sailors “a sense of pride in their heritage and an understanding of the importance of the shipmates who have gone before them,” Alex Hays, a Naval History and Heritage Command spokesman told Stars and Stripes in an email.

As the bells ring, individuals may salute and observe a moment of silence. …

ARMISTICE 100

The cemetery where the first and last WWI soldiers are buried

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FACT: The last living veteran of World War I (4 February 1914 – 11 November 1918) was Florence Green, a British citizen who served in the Allied armed forces, and who died 4 February 2012, aged 110. ... There were approximately 9,750,103 military deaths during the conflict.


FACT: The LAST 10. They're all gone now... but their legacy will live on forever.