LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - What we recognize as Veterans Day started in 1918.

While the Treaty of Versailles ended World War I in 1919, Texas Tech professor Ron Milan explains it was what happened before that changed everything."Fighting had ceased seven months earlier, when an armistice, or a 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," Milan said.

Congress would go on to change Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954.