Many still calls it armistice day in my early youth
That is what my mother always called it. Also it was her birthday. Happy Birthday mom sure wish you were here.
My family called it Armistice Day- both of my grandfathers were WWI generation.
My dad’s father was in basic training in the States when the 1918 flu hit. It nearly killed him, and of course it did kill more American soldiers than bullets did. Ended his Army career.
I’m not sure about my mom’s father, but her uncle was in the war. He was hit with mustard gas and had breathing issues the rest of his life. In that era people suffering from lung disease headed for drier climates and he ended up in El Paso. One very early Monday morning some twenty-odd years later he saw the western sky light up like the sun had decided to rise from that direction. He didn’t know at the time but it was the test of the atomic bomb over in White Sands.