Category: Veterans' Day and veterans...

Armistice Day first commemorated World War I and in 1921 the body of an unknown soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
the poppy, a small red flower, grows wild in the fields of Europe, where many died in World War I - so it came to be associated with the remembrance
taps are sounded at 11 AM on this day
[Veterans] feel disappointed, not about the 1914-1918 war but about this war. They liked that war, it was a nice war, a real war a regular war, a commenced war and an ended war. It was a war, and veterans like a war to be a war. They do. (Gertrude Stein)
The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love. (Walt Whitman)
[Here] rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience. (C.W. Weinberger)