THE WAR TO END ALL WARS

Today used to be called Armistice Day.  It was on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month that an armistice declared World War I officially over.

World War I was known as the war to end all wars.  Now, several wars later, we call the day Veterans Day.

Of course, they didn't call it World War I.  It was called The Great War.  They didn't start numbering these things until the next big one broke out. 

My father fought in World War II.  He was a medical corpsman with a rifle, a draftee who earned a Bronze Star.

And his birthday was November eleventh.