Veteran’s Day 2008
Veterans Day
Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who had been killed in the Korean War.
Official name Veterans Day (Remembrance Day in other parts of the world.)
Observed by United States
Type Federal (and most U.S. states)
Significance Honors the 24.9 million military veterans in the United States
Date November 11 (or nearest weekday)
Observances Parades, school history projects
President Eisenhower signs HR7786, officially changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
Veterans Day 2007 poster
Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. However, if it occurs on a Sunday then the following Monday is designated for holiday leave, and if it occurs Saturday then either Saturday or Friday may be so designated.[1] It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)
The holiday is commonly printed as Veteran’s Day or Veterans’ Day in calendars and advertisements. While these spellings are grammatically acceptable, the United States government has declared that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling.[2]
Buckles pictured at 103, was awarded the French Legion of Honor military decoration
Buckles was awarded the Legion of Honor by then French president Jacques Chirac.
On May 25, 2008, Buckles received the Veterans of Foreign Wars? Gold Medal of Merit at the Liberty Memorial. He sat for a portrait that will hang in the National World War I Museum, as “the last surviving link
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