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MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. (WTRF) — Moundsville held its first Veterans Day Parade in over 50 years to honor those who’ve served our country. Floats, emergency service vehicles, and veteran ... November 11, 2021 / 7:34 PM EST / CBS New York. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- New York City hosted its first Veterans Day Parade in two years on Thursday. Roughly 200 marching units, including bands ... Armistice Day Changed To Honor All Veterans. The first celebration using the term Veterans Day occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1947. Raymond Weeks, a World War II veteran, organized "National Veterans Day," which included a parade and other festivities, to honor all veterans. The event was held on November 11, then designated Armistice Day. In 1954, Congress and President Eisenhower renamed it Veterans Day. By then, the Alabama parade had been going on for years. “It’s the first in the nation,” said Mark Ryan, president of the National Veterans Day parade foundation based in Birmingham. Weeks “realized that the only celebration for veterans that we had was Armistice Day ... MARSHALL COUNTY, WV — The excitement could be heard through the streets of Moundsville on Saturday as the first Veterans Parade in decades made its debut. It all started with a visit to Dallas ... A military parade with crowds of excited spectators along 5th Avenue, in celebration of Armistice day and peace in Europe following World War One, New York, November 1918. Paul Thompson/FPG, Getty ... In 1954, President Eisenhower signed legislation establishing November 11th as Veterans Day. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan granted Weeks the Presidential Citizens Medal, recognizing him as the "driving force" behind the national holiday and the “Father of Veterans Day.”. Weeks led the first National Veterans Day Parade in 1947 in ... Vietnam Veterans wave flags during the first annual Veterans Day Parade in Westminster.(Karen Jackson/Freelance) Wade Cooney, of the Door to Virtue #46 Masonic Lodge, waves to the crowd gathered ... This weekend, the country paused to honor all the people who have served in the military with Veterans Day observances–some somber, others joyful and proud–and the first National Veterans Parade.