Wishing Dad A Happy Birthday

Wishing a Happy Birthday to my dad, Edwin Glen Willing, b. 11/11/1917. This day is universally known as Veterans' Day, a day honoring America's military family ~

World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

Dad told us that his father named him after his division commander in WWI. Dad grew up in Ashtabula, OH.

Wiki tells me that Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Glenn served as Commender (25 August 1917) of Ohio's WWI  83rd Infantry Division ("Thunderbolt").

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