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November 12, 2012 — Veterans Day

Dear William and Daniel, (and Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

Once a year, we celebrate Veterans Day — the official day of celebration is November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the agreement that ended World War I (hostilities were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918). (Note: Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day [observed annually on the last Monday of May] is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving.)
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July 14, 2011 — Bastille Day

Dear William (and Daniel, Catherine, Michael & Baby Girl Y) (and your parents), (and any future descendants and their parents),

This Day in History: Bastille Day! In 1789 Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution.

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