Alabama the First State to Celebrate Veterans Day

Alabama the First State to Celebrate Veterans Day

This Veterans Day, November 11, 2022, will mark the 75th anniversary of this historic and patriotic event. The very first Veterans Day was organized in Alabama by Raymond Weeks of Birmingham, Alabama, on November 11, 1947. The date of November 11 was originally proclaimed as Armistice Day on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918,