There were multiple Veterans Day programs in Wetumpka on Thursday, Nov. 11. The Wetumpka Fire Department flew an American flag that was large enough for motorists to see from far away in front of Trinity Episcopal Church on U.S Highway 231 for most of the day.

The VFW Post 4572 held a Veterans Day program that began at 11 a.m., this time is significant because it originally marked the beginning of Armistice Day. Now Veterans Day, this holiday observed every year on Nov. 11 marks the resolution that was signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, and called for the end of oppositions on the Western Front of World War I, which took effect at 11 a.m., or the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of 1918.