A Salute

Ninety-seven years ago today what was then known as The Great War ended with the defeat of the Central Powers: Germany and Austria-Hungary, plus Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Fighting ended on the eleventh month (November) and the eleventh day of 1918 at the eleventh hour when a cease-fire went into effect.

Since that time we've observed the day, first as Armistice Day and after 1954 as Veteran's Day. It's a day we are reminded freedom isn't free, for as President Thomas Jefferson wrote:

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

COTTonLINE salutes our nation's veterans, living and fallen. We owe you a debt nothing can repay.