Join the Office of Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity as we celebrate Veterans Day in front of the Student Alumni Center (SAC) on Friday, November 11 at 11:00 am CST to participate in the National Two-Minutes of Silence to commemorate our veterans. 

Are you a veteran in the Armed Forces or National Health Service Corps?

Please identify here!

World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” – officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

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