Although Veterans Day is a national holiday, often filled with parades and celebrations, it brings with it ambiguity. Howard Zinn, a World War II veteran, once wrote, “I do not want the ...

Sister’s worry over another deployment inspires this Veterans Day poem Poetry. Nov 11, 2016 12:04 PM EDT Gretchen Marquette says she remembers very clearly when she wrote the poem. Her ...

A poem for Veterans Day Opinion. Nov 10, 2017. Before her stands a strong young man, courageous, showing no fear; The journey awaits him like no other, his loyalty abundantly clear; ...

Dear Cortland: Thank you for granting me permission to use excerpts from your poem. Today is Veterans Day, and I am sure it will strike a responsive chord with all who read it.

North's Carolina new poet laureate has written a poem to honor Veterans Day. Posted 2012-11-09T15:58:58+00:00 - Updated 2012-11-09T16:22:06+00:00 Meet NC's new poet laureate ...

That poem now hangs in patient care rooms at cancer centers scattered around the country. With Veteran's Day approaching, Berger, who grew up in northeast Pennsylvania, but now lives in New Jersey ...

V Is for veterans who were celebrated on the 1st Armistice Day. November 11, 1919. E Is for Eisenhower, the president who officially changed the holiday to Veterans Day in 1954. T Is for the tombs ...

With Veterans Day coming up Thursday, it seems like a good time to pass along a clipping of a poem that goes back to World War I. It comes from Dorothy Teigen of Moorhead. The clipping is from an ...

Friday is Veterans Day in the U.S., an official holiday honoring Americans who served in the military on the anniversary of the World War I armistice with Germany on Nov. 11, 1918. This year it ...

Memorial Day, a national holiday to honor the 1.17 million men and women who have died to create and maintain the freedoms outlined in our Constitution, is not the only Memorial Day.

Memorial Day emerged from the Civil War as a celebration almost exclusively for veterans of the Union Army to remember those ... Veterans' poems can teach us about healing on Memorial Day. James ...