Veterans Day
Chief Master Sgt. Bill Ross, a 35-year Air Force veteran, left, and Boy Scouts 19-year-old Tyler Pollock, and 12-year-old Liam Gallagher salute in honor of war veterans, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Freeport, Maine. The boy scouts and other volunteers raised 50 casket flags donated by the families of Freeport veterans.
U.S. Army veteran Lt. Bill Kinzley from the state of Washington looks at the names of missing soldiers inscribed on the wall during the commemoration of U.S. Veterans Day Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 at the American Cemetery in suburban Makati, south of Manila, Philippines. Veterans Day is celebrated to pay tribute to men and women who have worn the uniform of the United States Armed Forces.
U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Steven W. Busby, left, uses a ceremonial sword to cut a cake celebrating the Corp's 235th birthday accompanied by World War II Navajo Code Talkers on Veterans Day on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. Code Talkers are: Keith Little, second left, Joe Vendever, second from right, and Bahe Ketchum, right.
A Filipino soldier plays the taps during the commemoration of U.S. Veterans Day Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 at the American Cemetery in suburban Makati, south of Manila, Philippines. Veterans Day is celebrated to pay tribute to men and women who have worn the uniform of the United States Armed Forces.
Harold Ols of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, an Army corporal during the Korean War from 1951-1953, salutes during the Pledge of Allegiance at a ceremony in honor of Veterans Day at the triangle in the middle of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. The first Armistice Day was marked on November 11, 1919.
Madelyn Cox, 5, pushes flowers into the soil of a relative's grave in honor of Veterans Day at Camp Butler National Cemetery, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Riverton, Ill. Along with soldiers who fought for both the Union and Confederate sides during the Civil War, veterans who lost their lives in the Spanish-American War, the two World Wars, the Korea War and the Vietnam War are also buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery.
Filipino and American flags are frame a Filipino soldier saluting while the national anthems are played during the commemoration of America's Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, at the American Cemetery in Makati, south of Manila, Philippines.
Vice President Joe Biden, with the help of Army Sgt. 1st Class Devin McCann, Sergeant of the Guard, 3rd Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, places a wreath at the Tomb of the Unkowns in honor of Veterans' Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
Vietnam war veteran U.S. Army Sgt. John George Rappel, right, talks with his comrades during the commemoration of U.S. Veterans Day Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, at the American Cemetery in suburban Makati, south of Manila, Philippines.
World War II veteran French-Lebanese Robert Martin, 63, furls a French flag at the end of a ceremony marking the 92nd anniversary of the end of World War I outside a war cemetery in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010. Armistice Day is the symbolic anniversary of the end of World War I and in modern times it recognizes all people who have died in conflicts around the world. The French writing on the flag reads: "War veterans association of the French army in Lebanon."
The morning sun breaks through trees at the Veterans Cemetery in Boscawen, N.H., on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, on Veterans Day.
People who declined to be identified pay their respects at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.
Vietnam veteran Gary Fox tapes flowers next to the names of fallen friends at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.
Dave Seiler, right, and Ronald Gaskill, left, wait to get haircuts during the Veterans Connect event at the downtown VA clinic in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Veterans Connect, which targets the roughly 2,500 homeless veterans in San Francisco and is held each year the day before Veterans Day, links participants to a variety of services including housing assistance, medical care, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. Seiler said that he served with the Marines in Vietnam and Gaskill said that he served in the Army in both Vietnam and Gulf wars.
In this handout provided by Bank of America, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, center, joins Bank of America community volunteer and veteran Wes Mendenhall, left, and U. S. Army staff sergeant Scott Laczynski to prepare 3,000 comfort packs to be sent to troops around the world on Veterans Day, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in New York.
Members of the US Marine Corps participate in a wreath-laying ceremony with Vice President Joe Biden at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier as part of Veterans Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010.
Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium meets WWII veterans at the Thomb of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day on Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010, in Brussels, Belgium.