Veteran's Day
Veterans Day is celebrated on this date each year.
What is November 11?
What are the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, and Coast Guard?
Bonus: add the newly formed Space Force
This song penned by Julia Ward Howe became a popular marching song during the Civil War.
What is Battle Hymn of the Republic?
This symbol is displayed at nearly every government building, school, aircraft, ship, and many homes.
What is the American Flag?
This was the name of the holiday before it became known as Veterans Day.
What is Armistice Day?
Bonus info: it only honored those who served in WWI. When it was renamed Veterans Day in 1954, it was changed to honor all veterans.
Veterans Day become a national holiday on this date.
What is June 1, 1954?
This force is operated on the seas.
What is the Navy?
This poem, later set to music, was penned by a young lawyer watching the battle for Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.
What is the Star Spangled Banner?
This animal represents the United States.
What is the Bald Eagle?
This percentage of veterans served during wartime.
What is approximately 3/4 (77%)?
Bonus info: 23% of veterans served during periods of no active conflict.
The date to celebrate Veterans Day was chosen to commemorate this event.
What is the truce or armistice signaling the end of World War I?
Bonus info: WWI didn't actually end until the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following June.
This force fights primarily from the skies.
What is the Air Force?
Bonus info: the motto is Aim High.
The battle against the Barbary pirates during the Jefferson administration is commemorated by this line in the Marine Hymn.
What is "To the shores of Tripoli"?
Military members show respect to each other by this gesture.
What is a Salute?
Of approximately 22 million veterans in the US, this many are women?
What is under 2 million? (approximately 1.6 million, or 9%)
This holiday is often confused with Veterans Day.
What is Memorial Day?
Bonus info: Veterans Day commemorates all who (honorably) served, Memorial Day commemorates those who died in service.
This is the smallest of the US armed forces.
What is the Marines?
Bonus info: Their motto is Semper Fidelis - always faithful.
This service anthem sings about going off into the "wild blue yonder"
What is the Air Force anthem?
This 5-sided building in Virginia is emblematic of the military.
What is the Pentagon?
This song, sung by Kate Smith, debuted on the radio for Veterans Day in 1938.
What is God Bless America?
Veterans Day celebrates this.
What is to honor people who served in the armed forces?
This branch of service was originally part of the Treasury Department.
What is the Coast Guard?
Bonus info: The Coast Guard came under the Department of Homeland Security in 2003. It is the only one of the armed forces which is not under the Department of Defense.
This song was inspired by the view from the top of Pike's Peak.
What is America the Beautiful?
Memorials to veterans from nearly every war the US has fought are located on this strip of land in Washington, D.C.
What is the National Mall?
More commonly displayed in the UK and Canada, this flower is the official symbol for Veterans Day.
What is the poppy?