Veterans Day

How many veterans are in the United States?

• 21 million

• 32 million

• 10 million

• 8 million

Veterans Day was originally known as...

• Flag Day

• Remembrance Day

• Armistice Day

• Soldiers Day

Why is Veterans Day celebrated on November 11?

• Congress wanted the holiday to fall between Labor Day and Thanksgiving

• It signifies the end of WWI when at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the fighting ended

• President Woodrow Wilson picked that day from a list submitted by the veterans service organization

• That's when the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, was signed.

Who proposed that Armistice Day be renamed Veterans Day in order to be more inclusive of all veterans service?

• Harry S. Truman

• Douglas MacArthur

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

What flower is a symbol of Veterans Day?

• Forget-Me-Not

• Lily

• Poppy

• Rose

The motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs is, "To care for him who shall have borne the battle." Who originally wrote these words?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Walt Whitman

• Washington Irving

• Woodrow Wilson

In Arlington National Cemetery, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is symbolic of the graves of all war soldiers who died yet were not found or identified. The Tomb began with...

• one unknown service member who died in World War 1

• 2,111 Union and Confederate soldiers from the Civil War

• soldiers and sailors from the War of 1812

• unknown soldiers from World War II

How many US presidents have been veterans?

• 25

• 31

• 34

• 17

Why are taps played at 11:11 on Veterans Day?

• To honor the fallen soldiers who gave their lives for our country.

• Two trumpets play the song together.

• Veterans sing "The Star Spangled Banner" after it.

• Memorial Day is a day to honor soldiers who died.

What do you know about the military? Share a story about someone in your family or someone you know who is in the military. If you don't know a veteran, what have you learned about what it's like to be a soldier?

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