Observed today in the United States, Veterans Day is always on November 11. It is celebrated in about 60 (mostly English Commonwealth nations) as Remembrance Day, Poppy Day or Armistice Day to mark the end the major fighting in World War I in 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when Germany signing of the Armistice. However, WWI was not officially over until the Treaty of Versailles in June of 1919. Poppy Day, incidently,

In Flanders Field

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

–John Alexander McCrae (1872″“1918) poet, physician, Lieutenant Colonel of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. This famous poem first appeared in Punch in December of 1915,