VETERANS DAY is commemorated each year on November 11. Formerly known as "Armistice Day" which was the day that a temporary cease fire took effect between the allied nations and Germany (at precisely 11am on 11/11/1918).
5 U.S. Code SS6103 (a) Holidays establishes Veterans Day as a National holiday.
ND Century Code 01-03-01 (9) establishes Veterans Day as a State holiday.
Information to help you learn more about veterans' day and to plan your veteran's day events, ceremonies and/or speeches.
- History of Veterans Day/timeline.
- National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Teachers Resource Guide.
- Veterans History Project.
- VA Veterans Day Posters.
- Facts and Information.
- America's Wars: Data and statistics.
- North Dakota Medal of Honor Recipients.
For Veterans:
- Veterans Day Specials (meals and discounts) may not apply at all venues.
- Veteran Day Meals-Military Wallet.
- Department of Defense Honoring our Veterans
Notable Quotations – Veterans Day Presidential Speeches
“Whenever the world makes you cynical; whenever you seek true humility and true selflessness, look to a Veteran.”
President Barack Obama, Nov. 11, 2016
“Veterans do not take life for granted. They know that duty and sacrifice are more than words. And they love America deeply, because they know the cost of freedom, and they know the names and faces of men and women who paid for it.”
President George W. Bush, Nov. 11, 2002
“We have a duty as well to remember the history that our Veterans lived and to appreciate and honor the history they made. We cannot expect future generations to understand fully what those who came before saw, experienced, and felt in battle. But we can make sure that our children know enough to say ‘thank you’ — those two simple words that can mean as much or even more than a medal.”
President William J. Clinton, Nov. 11, 1998
“A year from now, 100 years from now, citizens will come here on November 11th to remember. And yet we cannot confine our obligation to a single day. We must always remember the importance of preparedness and the high cost of liberty.”
President George H.W. Bush, Nov. 11, 1991
“We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause.”
President Ronald Reagan, Nov. 11, 1988
“It is in our charge now, as it was America’s charge after the Civil War, to see to it ‘that these dead shall not have died in vain.’ Sergeant York spoke thus of the cynics and the doubters: ‘The thing they forget is that liberty and freedom and democracy are so very precious that you do not fight to win them once and stop.’ …
The people of America agree with that. They believe that liberty is worth fighting for. And if they are obliged to fight they will fight eternally to hold it.
This duty we owe, not to ourselves alone, but to the many dead who died to gain our freedom for us—to make the world a place where freedom can live and grow into the ages.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nov. 11, 1941 (Armistice Day)