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Today is Veterans Day in the U.S. It’s "an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors [all] military veterans,” both living and dead. "It coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of 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, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. The United States previously observed Armistice Day. The U.S. holiday was renamed Veterans Day in 1954." "Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day, a U.S. public holiday in May; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who died while in military service. It is also not to be confused with Armed Forces Day, a minor U.S. remembrance that also occurs in May, which specifically honors those currently serving in the U.S. military.” (Unlike Veterans Day and Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day is not a U.S. public holiday.) [All quotations are from Wikipedia.] For historical reasons, the U.S. Memorial Day held in May, rather than Veterans Day in November, even though the November date actually matches more closely the spirit and purpose of the Armistice Day and Remembrance Day observations that other countries hold on November 11 — to honor their “war dead.” But in the U.S., the practice of honoring those who died while in active military service had already begun in the mid-1860s, right after the U.S. Civil War, when various women’s groups in the U.S. started the widespread practice of decorating soldiers’ and sailors’ graves during May. As a result, the U.S. holiday was originally known as Decoration Day, but by the end of World War II, Memorial Day had become the more popular name. In the United Kingdom and member countries of the (British) Commonwealth of Nations, many people wear a red plastic or fabric poppy for several weeks preceding Remembrance Day as a symbol of the blood spilled during World War I, or the Great War, as it was originally known. The practice of wearing the red poppies grew out of the famous British poem “In Flanders Fields,” which begins and ends with references to the wild poppies that grow in the fields of Flanders, the site of a series of five deadly battles during the Great War, from late 1914 through late 1918. (Flanders is the northwestern part of Belgium, where the people speak a Dutch dialect.) So to mark this somber occasion for our members from the UK and Commonwealth countries and to honor the lost “flower of a generation,” lest we forget the young men and women from those countries who sacrificed their lives on the bloody battlefields of World War I: “We will remember them."

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