In the U.S., Armistice Day was observed in 1919 and beyond with veterans’ parades, religious and secular services and two minutes of silence to honor the dead. In 1920, the British Unknown Soldier was buried in Westminster Abbey and the French Unknown Soldier at the Arc De Triomphe in Parish, where a perpetual flame burns.

In 1921, the American Unknown Soldier, found in a battlegrou

In 1927, Congress asked officials to display the flag on all government buildings and invited the public to observe the day in schools and churches. But not until 1938 did Congress pass a bill that each November 11 would be "dedicated to the cause of world peace" and celebrated and known as Armistice Day. ON May 13th, 1938 President Franklen Roosevelt approved Arministice Day in Public Law-510

On Memorial Day 1958, two more unidentified American war dead – one from World War II and the other from the Korean War – were buried beside the Unknown Soldier of World War I. In 1984, an unknown servicemen from the Vietnam War was placed beside them. A special Army honor guard keeps vigil over them day and night.

But "the war to end all wars," a

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