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November 10, 2021 A day to honor Area Veterans’ service not forgotten all veterans thanks to local author April 5, 2021), she doesn’t think that many people do know what exactly is asked of and sacrificed by our servicemen and service- women. Haught continued, “So I don’t think a lot of people know what the experience of being in the military is. I also wanted peo- ple to understand what sacrifices their families go through as well.” ‘The month of November is a special time for the nation's veterans. Haught says that she started off While Memorial Day honors fallen soldiers and service people, Veter- with interviewing veterans that an's Day, which takes place each November, is an opportunity to com- she already knew. Then, they memorate the efforts of all who have been in the armed forces, with would tell her of others which a special emphasis on living veterans. While people are encouraged led to word of mouth being a big to thank veterans throughout the year, Veteran's Day is a particularly source of leads for her. In addi- poignant time to show your appreciation for the men and women of tion, she would sometimes have the military. people approach her wanting a Veteran's Day takes place on November 11 and marks an important family member to be interviewed. Doug Haught. moment in history. On November 11, 1918, World War I, known at Judy and Doug Haught. “So it was kind of a grapevine,” she Judge of Beckham County and the time as “The Great War,” unofficially ended when an armistice, states. Speaking of family mem- served as a judge in the county for or temporary cessation of hostilities, took place between Germany By Burgundy Lee Hanrahan thought that veterans would be an bers, Haught would have been re- 28 years, still serving in the mili- and the Allied nations on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of miss to not include her own. Both tary. Doug took advantage of sev- interesting topic, saying, “I know the eleventh month. World War I ended on paper when the Treaty of Some may know Judy Haught that every year there are veterans her husband, Doug a retired judge, eral different opportunities for ed- Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. In November 1919, President from her time teaching at South- featured in newspapers and maga- and their daughter, Dr. Shannon ucation, training and promotions Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemora- western Oklahoma State Universi- zines and on TV around Memorial Foster, are featured in “Extraor- while serving, In 2002 he aided in tion of Armistice Day, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans ty in Sayre and some might know Day and Veterans Day but I knew dinary Valor.” Doug's pages detail post-Hurricane Katrina efforts. In Affairs. her as a member of “Friends of that there were a lot of people his experience of being drafted 2006, after 33 years in the mili- ‘Armistice Day became a federal holiday in the United States in 1938. the Library” at Elk City’s Carne- who had not told their stories. in 1972 during the Vietnam War. tary, Doug retired from the Okla- However, after subsequent wars, including World War II and the Ko- gie Library but what some might T also knew that there were a lot Having been drafted as things homa Army National Guard. “Ex- rean War, veterans’ service organizations lobbied for Armistice Day not know is that Haught is an of veterans that are getting older were winding down, rather than traordinary Valor” quotes Doug as author. Haught says that she had to be revised so it would be more inclusive of all veterans. On June “always written a few things here and had not really talked about being deployed overseas, Doug saying that he managed the two 1, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation to strike and there” but “Heroes in Our their experiences.” So, Haught was stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex- careers by “learning to separate the word "Armistice" from the holiday's name in favor of "Veterans." Midst” was the first book that she said, she wanted to “bring that to as following his entry training. the two, never talking about the ‘Since then, November 11 has been known as "Veterans Day" and has wrote. Haught explains that it and light and she also wanted people Doug was discharged in 1975 and military at the courthouse and honored veterans of all wars. her second book, “Extraordinary to understand what it is that we moved with his wife Judy back to never discussing judicial matters Veterans Day was moved to the fourth Monday in October for roughly Valor,” are “profiles of veterans, ask of people when we put them Oklahoma where he decided to while with the National Guard.” seven years under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which sought mostly veterans of Western Okla- in the military” Haught disclosed enlist in the Oklahoma Army Na- Doug hung up his robe in Jan. to ensure three-day weekends for federal employees by celebrating homa, that tell about their time that “after coming across a sta- tional Guard in order to help pay 2019 and now spends his time certain national holidays on Mondays. But since November 11 bore during the service.” Haught shares tistic that said that less than half for law school. Shortly after join- with Judy, their three children such significance, many states disapproved and continued to observe that each profile also includes of one percent of people in the ing the Guard, he entered the offi- and seven grandchildren. He and the holiday on November 11. In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed some details about the vets’ lives United States today are serving cer candidate school and commis- Judy enjoy traveling and reading legislation to return the observation of Veterans Day to November 11 post-military but that the primary in the military” (a statistic which sioned in 1976. For several years while Doug also indulges in his beginning in 1978. Should the day fall on a Saturday or Sunday, the focus is on their service. the Council of Foreign Relations, Doug juggled both his service and passion for genealogy. federal government observes the holiday on the previous Friday or When asked what made her want a nonprofit think tank, also pub- law school. ‘The Haughts’ daughter, Shannon following Monday, respectively, according to History.com. to write these books, Haught re- lished on July 13, 2020); as well In 1982 he was hired as Assistant (now Dr. Shannon Foster), knew ‘The United States isn't the only country to celebrate its veterans. Can- plied, “I wanted to write some- asa statistic that states that “only District Attorney in Beckham since middle school that she want- ada, Great Britain, Australia, and France also commemorate the vet- thing that focused on real people.” about ten percent of the US pop- County which saw the Haughts ed to go to medical school. After erans of World WarI and II on or near November 11 as Remembrance She explained that she had seen ulation are veterans” (which Pew move to Elk City. In 1983 Doug college, while interviewing See Day or Remembrance Sunday. anthologies about people and Research Center also shared on was appointed Associate District Haught page3. In some of the toughest times we have called on our veterans to serve. They have served with honor and grace and continue today. We would like to thank our veterans current and past for their endless sacrifices. Without you we would not be here today. 2s VETERANS DA HONORING ALL WHO SERVED THRU TUBING 1210 S. Main St, Elk City 580-225-0100 20th St, Elk City, OK 73644 - 580-225-6977 www.elksupply.com