In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, the world rejoiced and celebrated. After four years of bitter war, an armistice was signed. The "war to end all wars" was over. November 11 was set aside as Armistice Day in the United States, to remember the sacrifices that men and women made during the war in order to ensure a lasting peace. Congress voted Armistice Day a legal holiday in 1938, twenty years after the war ended. But Americans realized that the previous war would not be the last one. World War II began the following year, and nations great and small again participated in a bloody struggle. After the Second World War, Armistice Day continued to be observed on November 11. Soon after, Congress passed a bill introduced by a Kansas congressman renaming the national holiday
to Veterans' Day.
9:30 Fred Strohl will make PA announcement of ceremony and cafeteria program.
10:15 Music begins in Wigner Auditorium.
10:25 Audience requested to be in seats
10:30 Ceremony begins
10:35 Fred Strohl will give welcome and announce the quartet singing a service song medley
10:40 Address by Fred Evans, ORNL Director of Counterintelligence
10:50 Quartet singing of patriotic songs. Audience will join in singing.
11:00 Dismissal to flagpole (weather permitting)
11:05 Roger Underwood will play Amazing Grace on bagpipes.
11:10 Raising of flag by ORNL Guards
11:15 Dismissal to Cafeteria for Veterans' Day Lunch Special. (Note: There will be no entertainment in the Cafeteria this year.)
| Don't forget to sign the Veterans Board in the hall near the Weinberg Auditorium |
| Roberta Grafton, Co-Chairperson | Brenda Hackworth, Co-Chairperson |
| Fred Strohl | Debbie Knox |
| Teresa Ferguson | Robert Santoro |
| Missy Pointer | Kaye Carter |
| Mark Kohring | Spike Dothard |
| Jerry Lee, DOE-ORO | |
This web site was created by T.J. Honeycutt, for the ORNL EEO/Diversity Office, in cooperation with the ORNL Values Committee who sponsors the Veterans Day Celebration.