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Each year, the Veterans Day National Committee hosts the annual Veterans Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery. This year, 33 communities in 25 states and the District of Columbia will also host VA-recognized Veterans Day observances to pay tribute to America’s heroes.

VA and several national level organizations are hosting 2021 Veterans Day virtual events due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Following the success of a Memorial Day video in 2020, the Air Force Band was back at Culpeper National Cemetery in Virginia April 26 to shoot a video for Memorial Day 2021. The band returned to the site to pay respect and film a tribute to those who lost their lives in war.

The 2021 National Veterans Day Poster Contest is underway. Each year the Veterans Day National Committee publishes a commemorative Veterans Day poster.

Several national level organizations are hosting 2020 Veterans Day virtual events Nov. 11 due to the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz decided that, in death, he wanted to join his men at Golden Gate with a standard military funeral and regulation headstone. He took steps to assure that the shipmates closest to him during World War II could join him.

Each VA national cemetery will conduct a brief wreath laying [...]

Calling all artists! The 2020 National Veterans Day Poster Contest [...]

Thousands of volunteers laid wreaths at VA national cemeteries across the U.S. as part of National Wreaths Across America Day Dec. 14.

Each December on National Wreaths Across America Day, the mission to honor fallen Veterans is carried out with wreath-laying ceremonies at cemeteries across the U.S. and abroad.

Calling all artists! The 2019 National Veterans Day Poster Contest [...]

Yesterday evening President Donald J. Trump declared November 2018 the second annual National Veterans and Military Families Month.