Pahrump set to salute service members – Pahrump Valley Times

Pahrump set to salute service members  Pahrump Valley Times

Two local ceremonies are slated for this year’s Veterans Day. Service and sacrifice – this is what every American military member has given to the country. To don a uniform of the U.S. Armed Forces takes courage, dedication and a willingness to serve and the men and woman who bravely take up that duty are honored each year during Veterans Day. Here in Pahrump, where there are thousands of veterans who call the valley home, Veterans Day always includes events to mark the occasion. This year, both the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post #10054 and the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Chapter #15 will once again be holding ceremonies in celebration and the entire community is encouraged to join in to show their support for those who have served.

Veterans Day, observed of November 11, got its start over 100 years ago as Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end of World War I, which was known as “The Great War”. Though the war officially concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, the battles themselves had stopped months earlier, when an armistice, a cessation of hostilities, between the Allied Nations and Germany was issued. The armistice went into effect at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. “For that