1. Veterans Day occurs on Nov. 1 every year in honor of the “eleventh house of the elevent day of the eleventh month’’ of 1918 that signed the end of World War I, known as Armistice Day. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
2. Veterans Day in the 100 block of Commercial Street in 1940s.
3. The Kaffenberger-Williams Post of the American Legion was organized in September 1919 and was named after Lewis L. Kaffenberger (shown in photo) and Headley Williams, Laclede Countians who gave their lives in World War I.
4. Soldiers from Laclede County in 1916 during World War I.
5. This Veterans Day observance was taken on Nov. 11, 1967, in front of the Lebanon Post Office.
6. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4107 was organized in 1945. This photo of the post home in Lebanon was taken in the 1950 era.
7. Armistice Day parade on Commercial Street in 1920s era.
8. World War I veterans at the Kaffenberger-Williams American Legion Post in 1970.
