Address of President Hoover

Archive Report

My Fellow Countrymen:

Eleven years have gone by since the day of the armistice, when the guns ceased, firing. It was a day of thanksgiving that marked the ending of the shambles of the trenches. For us it will be remembered always as a day of pride; pride in the memory of those who suffered and of those who made the last sacrifice of life in that great cause; pride in the proven velour of our Army and Navy; pride in the greatness of our national strength; pride in the high purpose for which we entered the war, and pride that we neither wanted nor got from it anything of profit for ourselves. Those stirring memories will always remain, and on each Armistice Day will ...

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