11-11-11 -- VETERANS Day

November 10, 2011

Wisconsin National Guard Public Affairs Office

Wisconsin National Guard Soldiers were actively engaged with the enemy on the Meuse-Argonne battlefields Nov. 11, 1918 - a day later to be celebrated as Armistice Day, and Veterans Day today - until the closing minutes of combat in World War I

Wisconsin National Guard troops have participated in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II, the Korean War, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom/New Dawn, and Operation Unified Protector. Since 2001, more than 14,000 men and women of the Wisconsin National Guard have been called to active duty in support of the global war on terror - many of that number deploying more than once.

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