The-Daviess County Veterans Organization, local businesses and the city and county school districts are holding several Veterans Day events this week and next week, in honor of those who served in the armed forces.

Armistice Day and commemorated the end of fighting in 1918 on the Western Front in Europe between the Allies and Germany. The Armistice of Compiègne was signed earlier in the morning but many people remember from a history lesson that “at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month” the armistice went into effect and,