WSL Closed on Veterans Day

Nov 6, 2019

The Wyoming State Library will be closed Monday, November 11, in honor of Veterans Day.

Veterans Day, November 11, was first established in 1919 as Armistice Day, to honor the veterans of World War I on the anniversary of that conflict’s end.

Read more about the history of Veterans Day from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Image: The first Armistice Day (now Veterans Day) on November 11, 1919, in the Sheridan Post. (Click for larger image.) Find this and more in Wyoming Newspapers.

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