is Nov. 11,  Veterans Day ; or, if instead of 2009, the year happened to be any year from 1919 to 1953,  Armistice Day , the anniversary of the the cessation of hostilities on the  Western Front , which took effect at eleven o’clock in the morning, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918. That war — World War I —  before there was a World War II,