Bellevue Memorial Park will host an Open House on Veteran’s Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2009, to honor all Veterans. The Open House will be held in the Bellevue Mausoleum Corridor F Chapel, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. CLICK HERE FOR VETERAN'S DAY FLYER

Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans, and is observed on November 11th. It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, with the German signing of the Armistice).

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an Armistice Day for November 12, 1919. The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution seven years later requesting the President issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. An Act approved May 13, 1938, 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”.”