Searcy, AR (LR) — Why do we celebrate Veteran’s Day? The reason why we celebrate Veteran’s Day is because it occurs every year on November 11 in the untied states in the honor of the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918 that signaled 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. In 1968, the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed by Congress, which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. The law went into effect in 1971, but in 1975 President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11, due to the important historical significance of the date. Veterans Day commemorates veterans of all wars. For the first time ever the counselors created something they haven’t done before at Searcy School. Counselor Mrs. Katie Sipes was the one that made the Veterans day wall. “To be honest, kinda of around memorial day I saw some other schools who were celebrating military families, veterans, or people of active duty, but it kinda too late at that time to do anything school wide, so I spoke with Mr. Hodges and I was like I would like to do something and I think he brought up the veterans day. So we just put everything in plan, we made shirt’s for staff and students so they can wear red, white and blue day. So it just kinda start there, but then when it was closer to time, I thought to myself we could do doors for the teachers and celebrate veterans day”, saids Mrs. Sipes.