USAF Academy and the WW1 Overseas Flyers' Memorial

Greetings on Veterans' Day 2011. 11-11-11. I am a veteran of the USAF. I entered through Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. The Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado is the entry point for most officers. My family and I visited in the summer of 2005 and at the time there were squadrons of cadets going through Basic Training prior to starting their studies at the Academy. The top picture is the World War One Overseas Flyer's memorial. This memorial was designed and donated by Ira and Stella Jones on 11-11-1985. Ira was a pilot with the 25th Squadron and the 148th Squadron Pursuit Group in Toul, France during the war. World War One or as it was known, the Great War, ended with the Treaty of Versailles on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, at the time known as Armistice Day. Today we call it Veterans' Day.