Veterans Day was originally known as Armistice Day. On 
November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued a
message to his countrymen on the first Armistice Day, in
which he expressed what he felt the day meant to all
Americans. Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day
in 1954.

Veterans Day is distinct from Memorial Day, a U.S. public
holiday in May: Veterans Day commemorates the service
of all U.S. veterans, while Memorial Day specifically honors
those who have died while in military service.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)

(Fox News) – The United States Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
was dedicated at Arlington National Cemetery — following a
reverential selection process that spanned the Atlantic Ocean
— on this day in history, Nov. 11, 1921.

The remains of the American hero buried beneath the tomb
was chosen from thousands of unidentified doughboys killed
in World War I and buried in France.

"Here rests in honored glory an American Soldier, Known but
to God," reads the inscription on the marble tomb.