Each year on November 11, the United States observes Veterans Day, a holiday that honors military veterans of the United States Armed Forces.

Veterans Day celebrates the service of both living and deceased veterans, and is known in other countries as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. The date, or more specifically, “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month,” marks the moment that the Armistice agreement between World War I Allies and Germany went into effect, ending WW1 in 1918.

The holiday is one of a few military holidays celebrated in the U.S.

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