Soon after, Congress passed a bill renaming the national holiday to Veterans Day. In 1953 townspeople in Emporia, Kansas called the holiday Veterans Day in gratitude to the veterans in their town. Armistice Day was still observed after the end of the Second World War. In 1938 Congress voted Armistice Day as a legal holiday, but World War II began the following year. On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month of the year 1918, an armistice was signed, ending the "war to end all wars." November 11 was set aside as Armistice Day in the United States to remember the sacrifices that men and women made during the war in order to ensure a lasting peace. Veterans Day (USA), Remembrance Day (Canada) Mennas, an Egyptian soldier and martyr, put to death during Diocletian's reign (c. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is also the commemoration of St. He was a principal apostle of Gaul, where his feast was celebrated as a holyday of obligation with an octave and popular celebrations.Īccording to the 1962 Missal of St. Martin is the first bishop and confessor honored by the Church in the West. Today the Church celebrates the memorial of St. Mennas, martyr Other Titles: Martinstag, Martini Martinmas
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» Enjoy our Liturgical Seasons series of e-books! Christian Valor Amidst Pagan Persecution | John P.They have two daughters and four grandchildren. LaPlante and his wife, Norma Caroline, reside in Fairfax, Virginia. He returned to federal service in 2003 as a government civilian where he served, in Washington, D.C., as the first Executive Liaison and Operations Coordinator for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) located on Fort Benning, Georgia. LaPlante spent four years as a private consultant on Inter-American politico-military affairs to the U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer specializing in Latin America where he had several assignments in the Western Hemisphere.
Army Retired), having held a variety of command and staff positions in Airborne, Light Infantry and Special Forces units including combat command of Task Force 3-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment during the Gulf War - Desert Shield/Desert Storm. In addition to his Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from WKU, he holds a Master’s Degree in Management from Webster University, graduated with honors from the Defense Language Institute’s Spanish course is an MIT seminar XXI Fellow, and OSD-designated National Security Officer.Īfter a distinguished military career spanning more than 27 years, LaPlante retired as a Colonel (U.S.
Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, he served as Acting Director (2013-2014), Deputy Director (2006-2013) and as CHDS Dean of Students and Administration (2004-2005). During a 10-year career at the William J. LaPlante, a 1972 WKU graduate, serves as Vice President and Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at Global Strategic Analysis. Mackey’s awards include two Silver Star Medals, seven Bronze Star Medals, two with the V Device, nine Air Medals, the Army Commendation Medal with V Device and two Purple Hearts. Mackey had already been selected for promotion and was posthumously promoted to the rank of major. 17, 1969, when an OH-6 Cayuse and AH-1 Cobra collided in the Mekong Delta southwest of Saigon. In 1969 he volunteered for a second tour in Vietnam and was assigned as an Operations Officer with the 5 th Battalion, 60 th Infantry, 9 th Infantry Division. Mackey served his first tour of duty in Vietnam from December 1966 to November 1967 with Advisory Team 99 of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. After graduation, he taught school in Slaughters before beginning active duty in 1964 at Fort Benning, Georgia. He began his military career when he entered the WKU ROTC program in 1958 and became a Pershing Rifleman. Army in Vietnam where he was killed in action in September 1969. Mackey, a 1963 WKU graduate, served two tours of duty with the U.S. The 2015 ROTC Hall of Fame inductees are Maj. at the Guthrie Bell Tower followed by the Hall of Fame induction at the Stansbury Concourse on Diddle Arena’s second floor. The wreath-laying ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. 11 with a wreath laying at Guthrie Bell Tower followed by the ROTC Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Diddle Arena’s Stansbury Concourse. WKU’s ROTC program will observe Veterans Day on Nov.
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