Come visit the East Tawas Library and see the special book display in honor of Veterans Day.
Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day. It was first celebrated in 1919, one year after the cessation of hostilities (on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) of The Great War, which we now call World War I. Other countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom use the term Remembrance Day.
For more information about Veterans Day see the following web sites from the US Department of Veterans Affairs and the US Army Center of Military History.
www.va.gov/vetsday
www.army.mil/cmh/faq/vetsday/vetshist.htm
The 30 books on display range from picture books (The Wall by Eve Bunting) to books for teens (Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac) to books for adults (The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause: The Firsthand Account of One of the Greatest Escapes of World War II).
November 3, 2007
Veterans Day Book Display
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