Please Join Commissioners Diane McKeel and Rod Runyon and Help AOC welcome our special guest at the Annual Conference in Eugene, Portland VA Health Care System Director Joanne Krumberger. The AOC Veterans Steering Committee meets 1:15-3:15 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18th.

 

Director Krumberger will be sharing thoughts on the many changes happening with the veterans health care system in Oregon. The goal of the session with Director Krumberger is to identify and pursue County/VA collaboration pilots to better serve our veterans and their families.

 

Veterans Day History
1918 – At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends.At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiýgne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure. November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

 

Soldiers of the 353rd Infantry near a church at Stenay, Meuse in France, wait for the end of hostilities.  This photo was taken at10:58 a.m., on November 11, 1918, two minutes before the armistice ending World War I went into effect

 

In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”

 

On May 13, 1938, Congress made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday — a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as “Armistice Day.” In 1954, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word “Armistice” and inserting in its place the word “Veterans.” On October 8, 1954 President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first“Veterans Day Proclamation.”

 

A Sampling of 2015 Veterans Day Deals: See Full Details of Each Deal Here
Sizzler Free Lunch

 

AOC Policy Manager Andy Smith is a veteran and takes care of veterans for AOC