ALAMOSA– The Veterans organizations of Alamosa, American Legion Post 113, Post 899 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Ladies Auxiliaries will sponsor the annual Veterans Day Parade on Main Street in Alamosa at 11:00 o’clock on Monday, November 11, 2019.

Anyone wishing to participate in the parade to recognize the veterans, past and present, should contact Jack Rudder at 719-588-9838.  The parade will form beginning at 9:00 at 6th and LaDue and will kick off at approximately 10:50.

There will be a short ceremony at Main and State at exactly 11:00 a.m.

Originally called Armistice Day to celebrate the end of World War I, we now know as Veteran’s Day. “The Great War”, World I, officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919.

However, fighting ceases seven months earlier when an armistice or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

For that reason, November 11, 1919, at 11 am, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”