<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2AwCEp_1GzQBrKN00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2AwCEp_1GzQBrKN00" width="500" height="330" ><figcaption>Photo courtesy of HistoryLink.org</figcaption></figure>When World War I ended on November 11, 1918, many hoped it would secure democracy around the globe and “end all war.” When America entered the three-year-old European conflict in 1917, some 50,000 Seattleites showed their support with an impromptu parade. One local veteran of the Civil War even tried to enlist. Thousands of knitters made clothing for the troops, citizens in the San Juan Islands and elsewhere around the state also pitched in to aid the war effort, and William Boeing scrambled to win his first defense contract.Not everyone cheered the war. Most notably, members of the Industrial Workers of the World opposed it. One of them, Louise Olivereau, was sentenced to prison for advising potential draftees on their rights. Citizens of German and Austrian descent also found themselves under scrutiny.As the nation celebrated its first Armistice Day in 1919, World War I veterans in the new American Legion decided to evict the IWW from its office in Centralia. The Wobblies were ready, and four attackers were killed in the gun battle. An irate mob later hauled Wobbly Wesley Everest from the town jail and lynched him from a bridge over the Chehalis River. The “Centralia Massacre” is remembered today by a monument to the fallen legionnaires in a city park – not far from a newer mural celebrating Everest and the IWW.On the third Armistice Day in 1921, the Seattle Garden Club planted the first 25 elm trees that line Des Moines Memorial Way. Other communities held their own commemorations, and many have monuments and hold parades in honor of those who fought in service of their country. In 1938, Armistice Day was officially made a legal public holiday. After so many more men and women served in World War II and the Korean War, the name was changed to Veterans Day in 1954 to honor veterans of all wars.Happy Birthday, WashingtonOn November 11, 1889, Washington became a state when U.S. President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill admitting it into the Union. Territorial governor Elisha P. Ferry received the good news via telegram from U.S. Secretary of State James Blaine, who stated that the proclamation was signed “at five o’clock and twenty-seven minutes this afternoon.”Washingtonians had been seeking self-governance for years. The region was first made part of Oregon Territory, which was created in 1848, but folks living north of the Columbia River resented their distance from the territorial capital, located first at Oregon City but moved to Salem in 1851. Calls for a separate territory started at a convention in 1851 and led to the establishment of Washington Territory in 1853.After Oregon became a state in 1859, Washington Territory expanded to include all of Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming. President Lincoln severed these in 1863, creating Idaho Territory and establishing Washington’s current boundaries. Washington Territory’s residents began their long campaign for statehood, but it was not until 1878 that the first bill to authorize it was introduced in Congress. Some argued that it made the most sense to divide the territory into two states along the crest of the Cascades (an idea that never quite dies), but Washington ultimately joined the Union in one piece.This article is courtesy of HistoryLink.org, the free online encyclopedia of Washington state history</div></body>

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When World War I ended on November 11, 1918, many hoped it would secure democracy around the globe and “end all war.” When America entered the three-year-old European conflict in 1917, some 50,000 Seattleites showed their support with an impromptu parade. One local veteran of the Civil War even tried to enlist. Thousands of knitters made clothing for the troops, citizens in the San Juan Islands and elsewhere around the state also pitched in to aid the war effort, and William Boeing scrambled to win his first defense contract.

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