TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, November 11, 2013

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Today in the United States is Veterans Day, a holiday to remember all those who have served in American wars. Thank you to all of the brave servicemen and women for risking your lives for our freedom!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

HINT: (1533-1592), one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, and commonly thought of as the father of modern skepticism.


RANDOM TIDBITS
Veterans Day was first called Armistice Day, declared to mark the end of World War I hostilities at 11 a.m., Nov. 11, 1918. Congress gave it that name in 1926, though it didn't become a national holiday for a dozen more years.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 to change the name to Veterans Day as a way to honor those who served in all American wars.

Veterans Day is often confused with Memorial Day because they are similar in intent, but not identical. Memorial Day honors America's war dead, while Veterans Day honors all American veterans, living and dead, and has a special emphasis on thanking living veterans for their service to the country.

Irving Berlin wrote the song "God Bless America" in 1918, but it was another 20 years before he changed the lyrics and turned it into the version we know. It debuted as part of an Armistice Day radio special on November 10th, the day before Veteran's Day and was performed by a lady named Kate Smith. All the proceeds went to the Boy and Girls Scouts of America.

In 1918, a woman in Georgia named Moina Belle Michael read a John McCrae poem called "In Flanders Fields" and it inspired her to wear red poppies as a way of remembering the veterans. The poem includes the line, "In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses row on row."

In 1968, the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed by Congress, which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. The law went into effect in 1971, but in 1975 President Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11, due to the important historical significance of the date.


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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

ANSWER: Michel de Montaigne.

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