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Originally Posted by HW3
I appreciate the wishes but, Memorial Day in the United States is for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.
Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that honors military veterans, that is, persons who served in the United States Armed Forces.
So you see the living veterans holiday is Veterans Day, while Memorial Day is for our brothers who paid the ultimate price for our freedom.
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You beat me to it.
Back in England, we celebrated the two together on Remembrance Sunday, but my family changed it up once we moved back here. One way or another, though, I propose a toast at noon Greenwich time Monday to those who gave thier lives so we can have our freedoms that we have.
"They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We shall remember them."
-Robert Laurence Binyon, '
For the Fallen'