Crissey Elementary

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice, or truce, was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as “the Great War.” The following year, that day was recognized as “Armistice Day.” November 11 became a legal federal holiday in the United States in 1938. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day…