Did you know that Veterans Day is the only federal holiday dedicated solely to honoring military veterans who are still ...

Veterans Day was initially called Armistice Day and honored the soldiers of World War I. Today it has expanded to celebrate ...

Veterans Day is a federal holiday observed annually on November 11 to honor all U.S. military veterans. The holiday was ...

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C on Nov. 13, 1982.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that's supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and a long weekend ...

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If you ever wondered why Americans celebrate Memorial Day, take a look at these four facts that dive into the holiday’s long history. 1) It began with the Civil War. Memorial Day was a response to the ...

In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country. The holiday was Memorial Day, and ...

Commemorated in many countries as Armistice Day, the following year, November 11th became a federal holiday in the United ...

Their public Veterans Day Ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial ...

Without the Marine Band or a formal color guard, high schoolers joined Saturday’s ceremony to mark Veterans Day and the 250th ...