Attention Artists: The 2025 National Veterans Day Poster Contest is now open for submissions.
Here’s your opportunity to show off your talent and use your artwork to honor Veterans. VA and the Veterans Day National Committee are now accepting entries for the 2025 Veterans Day Poster Contest. Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. (EDT) on May 2, 2025.
This contest is open to all, and your art should reflect this year’s theme: “Service to our Nation.”
After receiving more than 150 entries last year, Myisha Godette, a retired, disabled Army Veteran from Queens, New York, was selected as the winner of the 2024 contest. In describing her design, Myisha’s inspiration was “the shared experience of service members—past, present and future—with elements like the American Flag, military “dog tags,” and the enduring strength of Veterans, embodied by a solid, dark concrete background in my design.”
The winning poster will be distributed to VA facilities, military installations worldwide, and across cities and towns in our nation. It will also serve as the cover of the official program for the Veterans Day National Observance at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 11, 2025.
To ensure your submission meets the technical requirements, please review our design submission guidelines before engaging your creativity. Successful designs are very simple, with minimal imagery and verbiage. To view examples of past winning submissions, visit The Veterans Day Poster Gallery.
Submit electronic versions as jpg/jpeg images or PDF files to vetsday@va.gov.
Questions? Please email the Veterans Day Coordinator at vetsday@va.gov.
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Funny thing, and yes I did note the winning design was drom a woman, but I was refused dog tags because of my sec, despite having to qualify on the M-16 and being issued a mobility bag with helmet, flak jacket and canteen. Just like the men.
I am so fed up with even the minor wrongs done to women in the military being swept under the rug.
I cannot get gender appropriate care without months long struggle. I cannot get Rx without months long struggle but you have resources for a grade school level art competition
I remember my friends in classes I followed returning from Vietnam to bags of wetted dogshit breaking against the fences splattering them as they faced calls from the liberals as baby killers and from world war veterans as losers. We learned to not mention our service, even in college while enrolled under the GI Bill and particularly not while applying for jobs. Today it is different and, in ways, resented. Thank you for your service, without any true emotion. It is as if they get and extra nickel an hour for every Veteran they thank. And the Federal government and the division in this country is certainly not worth serving today. I respect every brother, sister who have served, not for the Federal Government. Not even for the freedoms of the people of this divided nation, but for serving to protect one another. Having each others back It is more than a “Brotherhood or sisterhood” , It is more than family. It is even more than a fellowship and “we”, deserve better on “our ” day than the divisionary bullshit some are using this as a platform for!
God Bless America ??
wow already a couple of whining lefties here…..guees they liked the country under bidens crime family….things need cleaning up and change to get better. we are on the right track finally!!!!
Leftees? That’s a crock of crap soup. It is a political lie and misplaced ignorance to claim politics when we are asking the Secretary of the VA to honor his statements of providing Veteran-centric care to Veterans. Who is claiming that Biden’s leadership was more supportive for Veterans across the board? Perhaps some Veteran factions were better off with Biden-administration efforts, but let’s get it right. The Veterans are the center of a Veteran-centric care environment . We all should agree to this basic premise. Veterans matter! Why don’t we the People ask the Veterans what we can do to assist them in their needs, entitlements, and benefits. Remember, ‘some gave all…all gave some’? I spent decades in uniform and I will spend the remaining years of my life in SUPPORT of all Veterans. Agree that Veterans who tripped on a blade of grass at bootcamp should not be entitled to 100% disability, but I saw how my own father fought for our country and the VA ignored his needs despite the myriad of combat-related injuries he suffered. We all need to rise to care for Veterans and one must question what our Secretary is doing and not just saying.
This is an outstanding program and Art Therapy is a good way to let things go.
I am going to enter it ???
I WOULD DEARLY LOVE TO CREATE A POSTER TO HONOR ALL OUR VETERANS! I AM AN ARTIST, AND SCULPTOR, MY CREATION OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN, WAS FEATURED ON THE FRIN OAGE OF THE WASHINGTON POST NEWS PAPER, THE YEAR TRUMP FIRST RAN FOR OFF, AND CREATED COMMEMORATIVE COINS TO HONOR THOSE VETERANS WHO SUFFER FROM PTSD..I PLAN ON THINKING HOW TO BEST TO DESIGN ONE THAT WILL MOVE, AND CAPTURE THE INTEREST OF ANY AND ALL WHO MIGHT SEE IT, IF CHOSEN THE WINNING DESIGN.
Would it be a copyright infringement to do a “Lady and the Tramp” spaghetti meal kiss using Trump and Putin. They could be eating outside a closed VA building. I want a perfect poster, what is the exact shade of orange I should use for Trump?
You are a disgrace to our country, maybe your va benefits should be taken away given to someone who really deserves it.
Ric, maybe you don’t have a radio or tv….but I will clue you in. Elon and Trump are trying to fire 80,000 VA employees as we speak and close upward of 120 VA facilities. Cancelling research of Ptsd, cancer, PFAS research, and even closing the suicide hotline. 3,900 VA probationary employees are already toast. Trump is best buds with Russia ….our enemy since WW I, here is a study lesson for you…research the U.S. Polar Bears. Every thing I just wrote is a FACT…that means truth and can be backed up with proof and data. USE YOUR BRAIN…..DO REAL RESEARCH. You need to be smart and look at what is actually happening, right now, in real time.
Anyone that would instill political rheotoric into this opportunity is a disgrace to the men and women that have served and can call themselves Veterans. You should take your ideas to San Francisco or Washington DC and hang with those with the same idiologies and leave this group alone. As a Veteran, I have served with both Rebulican and Democratic Presidents, and they were (in fact), the Commander in Cheif. Respect those that have put aside their political opinions and have earned the right to be called a Veteran. If you can’t, then just silence yourself here and go troll on FB or somewhere else, where there are people that ‘may’ care about your views, but more importantly, where those that don’t can block you.
Why are you allowing comments?
It’s turned into political BS.
As an American veteran, I am still on duty and should respectfully honor our commander in chief. To talk trash about a man that the MAJORITY voted for is unacceptable. Move to another country and cry. USA USA ????
Canceling Veterans Day is a slap in the face to all those who served before us. Disrespectful to even suggest it.
I am an artist a veteran, it would be an Honor to sign up for this contest thank you.
You might as well cancel Veterans day.
The country is right now being
softened up for a grateful Russia.
WE served the nation.
Those in power now serve themselves.
WE ARE BEING ATTACKED
I agree—-let’s try again in 2028. They might cancel Vets Day to save $100
If you aren’t serious about a VA initiative, step back and let those who are. The VA has nothing to do with the political climate you perceive. Stand together, not apart.
I feel sorry for you. Do a little sole searching and study a little history. Common Sense is not a common virtue.
A few questions:
– Does the poster need to have any Dougie Collins talking points about how cutting tens of thousands of VA employees will lead to faster appointments and disability compensation decisions?
– Does the poster need a pledge to DOGE to thank them for taking a hatchet to veterans who were fired from federal government?
– Since this administration is abandoning our allies and embracing Russia, will any references to being a partner nation immediately mean the entry is thrown out?
Please answer so I can adjust my entry accordingly. Thank you.
it is wrong to say this must be a socialist
Is it wrong to say you must be a traitor
As a non-vet young man who may enter, this comment section is disappointing and making me realize that your veteran titles mean very little in terms of your character. We’re all human, I suppose I’m realizing; it is a bitter realization though.
Love it Adam…..exactly right!
If you aren’t serious about a VA initiative, step back and let those who are. The VA has nothing to do with the political climate you perceive. Stand together, not apart.
Stand together…..like sheep! Believe in beautiful rainbows and butterflies as Elon and Orange Guy fire upward of 80,000 VA employees and cripple research and gut the VA workforce. WAKE UP…..doing nothing and saying nothing, WOW…..that is an effective practice. This is happening RIGHT NOW, in real time. Remember the Vietnam Vets who protested the war and thru their medals away in DC in 1970. At the time, they were seen as losers and a disgrace to the flag. Today, the are looked as truth tellers and warriors who had the courage to stop an unjust war that was unwinnable.
Nick Fury, did I miss where you said how you fit into this thread as a veteran or VA patient? The waste is staggering. Obsolete equipment, and simple pencil/and-paper Dx work never done. The VA is awful.
Not honor veterans on veterans day .wtf is wrong w u people w/o veterans from the beginning we would not be a free country .veterans r gods .honor n worship them .or u should b shot…not honor veterans .some people’s children .. really??!!