[mantra-pullquote align=”left|center|right” textalign=”left|center|right” width=”33%”]”…on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.”[/mantra-pullquote]
On November 11, 1918, at 11:00 on the morning, a lasting quiet finally descended on the trenches of World War I. The armistice agreement between the Allies and Germany brought an end to a war that caused the deaths of more than 16 million people. Most of the Allied nations now celebrate a holiday on November 11 to commemorate the servicemen killed in the war.
The 2012 Veterans Day procession at Sylvan Cemetery.
In the United States, our celebration is slightly different. The holiday we know as Veterans Day honors all American veterans, whether living, dead in action, or deceased from other causes. The official national remembrance of war dead instead falls on the late-May holiday of Memorial Day, which became entrenched in that role in the decades immediately following the Civil War.
The Sylvan Cemetery in Citrus heights will hold Veterans Day ceremony on November 11 at 11:00AM. The ceremony includes a procession of veterans through the cemetery led by Citrus Heights Police and local Boy Scouts. The Sylvan Cemetery is the final resting place of many veterans, and features a military memorial garden. The cemetery was opened in 1862, and is one of the oldest continuously operating cemeteries in the Sacramento region.