Ceremony at DeKalb County Courthouse
The Sycamore Veterans Home will present a short ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday at the DeKalb County Courthouse, 133 W. State St. in Sycamore. The presentation will include students playing taps.
Veterans Day ceremony at NIU
The Northern Illinois University Veterans Club will host a ceremony at 11 a.m. Monday, at the Veterans Memorial Flagpole across from Altgeld Hall by the pond. The event will feature a rifle volley, playing of taps and a keynote speech by U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
Veterans Day:
is an official United States holiday which honors people who have served in armed service also known as veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11. It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.)
Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving.
Most sources spell Veterans as a simple plural without a possessive apostrophe (Veteran’s or Veterans’).
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