Illinois Valley Times

In a Nov. 11 Facebook post, Sen. Win Stoller (R-Peoria) honored veterans.

“Thank you to the brave men and women who answered the call to serve and protect our great nation,” Stoller posted.

Veterans Day was first known as Armistice Day, celebrating the end of the First World War, when "fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month," according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

The first commemoration of the day was in November 1919, when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Armistice Day. He said: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"

National Public Radio listed restaurants where veterans could receive free meals.meals on Veterans Day.

Stoller was first elected to the Illinois Senate in 2021. His legislative experience includes serving on the Environment and Conservation Committee and Senate Higher Education Committee. Stoller resides in Germantown Hills.