Tucked after Halloween trick-or-treating and before Thanksgiving turkey and cranberries is an often-overlooked holiday – Veterans Day, which is always on Nov. 11.

But it wasn’t always called that.

On Nov. 11, 1918, an armistice between the Allied countries and Germany was signed to end active fighting in World War I.

President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11, 1919 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice

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