Armistice Day was originally inaugurated to celebrate the end of World War I. President Dwight Eisenhower changed it to Veterans Day at the height of the Cold War, and it soon became the occasion for celebrating militarism rather than honoring veterans. Today it is a day of military parades and mindless nationalism.

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Updated November 11, 2015 - 11:19 PM EST
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