Pause for Veterans

Summary


I was a senior in high school on Nov. 11, 1941. At that time, Nov. 11 was known as Armistice Day, after the armistice terminating World War I in 1918.

Living in Upland at that time, we attended a patriotic parade in the morning and speeches by veterans in the afternoon at the local park. Significantly, they said that was the war to end all wars.

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Pause for Veterans

Unexpectedly, on Dec. 7, 1941, Japan attacked our military bases in Hawaii, a resurgence of a war that came to be World War II. T...

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