{"id":11595,"date":"2026-11-11T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=11595"},"modified":"2026-11-10T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T21:44:36","slug":"veterans-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2026\/11\/11\/veterans-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a45f0c8f-3fb5-4a6a-a801-d580478d9a24.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a45f0c8f-3fb5-4a6a-a801-d580478d9a24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1536\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a45f0c8f-3fb5-4a6a-a801-d580478d9a24.png 1024w, https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a45f0c8f-3fb5-4a6a-a801-d580478d9a24-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a45f0c8f-3fb5-4a6a-a801-d580478d9a24-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a45f0c8f-3fb5-4a6a-a801-d580478d9a24-768x1152.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we honor our Veterans, living and dead, who served and yet serve in the Armed Forces. Here&#8217;s a little history about this day:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Armistice Day<\/strong> marked the official end of fighting in World War I on the Western Front. It commemorates the ceasefire agreement signed between the Allied powers and Germany on <strong>November 11, 1918<\/strong>, which went into effect at the <strong>&#8220;eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Historical Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Ceasefire:<\/strong> Signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compi\u00e8gne, France, around 5:00 AM, taking effect six hours later at 11:00 AM.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Original Intent:<\/strong> Conceived as a day to honor those who served in the First World War and to promote world peace. It was widely hoped that WWI would be the &#8220;war to end all wars.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Name Changes:<\/strong> Following the much larger scale of World War II and the Korean War, several nations rebranded the holiday to honor a broader group of military personnel:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>United States:<\/strong> Renamed <strong>Veterans Day<\/strong> in 1954 to honor all U.S. military veterans, living or dead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>United Kingdom &amp; Commonwealth:<\/strong> Evolved into <strong>Remembrance Day<\/strong> (or <em>Poppy Day<\/em>), focusing on honoring all fallen service members.<\/li>\n<li><strong>France &amp; Belgium:<\/strong> Retained the name <strong>Armistice Day<\/strong> (<em>Jour de l&#8217;Armistice<\/em>) as a major national holiday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Common Traditions<\/h3>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Tradition<\/th>\n<th>Significance<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Two-Minute Silence<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Observed globally at <strong>11:00 AM on November 11<\/strong> to pause and remember the fallen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Red Poppies<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Worn primarily across Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, inspired by the war poem <em>In Flanders Fields<\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Tombs of the Unknown Soldier<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Wreath-laying ceremonies held at national memorials (such as Arlington National Cemetery or the Cenotaph in London).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p>(Clickable) poster by <a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a> and history by <a href=\"https:\/\/grok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grok<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we honor our Veterans, living and dead, who served and yet serve in the Armed Forces. Here&#8217;s a little history about this day: Armistice Day&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-military","category-patriotism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11595"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11595\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}