Lloyd
Brown remembers Armistice Day in 1918 as few -- ever so few -- veterans can.
"For the servicemen there were lots of hugs and kisses," recalls Brown, of Charlotte Hall, Md., a teenage seaman aboard the battleship USS New Hampshire, in port stateside when the fighting stopped. "We were so happy that the war was over."
Now 104, Brown adds, "There's not too many of us around any more."
No
one knows exactly how many of America's World War I veterans will
celebrate Veterans Day, which marks the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918,
that ended what then was considered the Great War. An estimated 2 million
Americans served in Europe after the U.S. entered the war in 1917.
