Veterans Day 11/11/11

Thank a veteran

Thank a Veteran.

Veterans Day, formerly Armistice Day, is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans.   It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11^th.  It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day or Rememberence Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended WW I.   Major hostilities of WWI were formally ended at the 11^th hour of the 11^th day of the 11^th 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 advertising.  While these spellings are grammatically acceptable, the US government has declared the the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling.