Veterans' Day
Department of Veterans Affairs
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a special Veterans' Day web site, which holds some excellent resources for educators.
Veterans and Veterans' Day Information
The Veterans' Day web site holds a tremendous amount of information as a whole, and, luckily, is broken into numerous areas, but we will only highlight a couple here. For a complete look at all the areas available, please visit the Veterans' Day web site.
The first area, the Teachers Resource Guide, provides Veterans' Day School Kits. There are two different types of the kits, one for viewing on a computer (lower resolution) and one for printing (higher resolution). Both kit types are in PDF, so be sure to have Adobe Reader. Each kit type is broken into four different groups, a complete school kit, a teachers' section kit, a grade 4-7 kit, and a grade 8-12 kit.
The second area, Fact Sheets, provides information on Health Care, Benefits, Memorial/Burial, and Miscellaneous as they apply to veterans. Each sub-section provides its information in three different file formats, HTML, PDF, and Word. You will need to have Adobe's free Adobe Reader to view the PDF files. Each sub-section has multiple areas upon which data can be collected.
The third area, The President's 2005 Veterans' Day Proclamation, brings you President George W. Bush's proclamation, delivered on November 2, 2005.
The fourth area, the Veterans' Day Poster Gallery, offers the official Veterans' Day posters from as far back as 1978 for download and display.
The fifth area, and probably one of the most interesting areas available, is a personal account of the Burial of the Unknown Soldier. You can view the full contents of the account, which is a letter was written by Miriam ("Mimi") Felt to her family describing events in Washington, DC, around the time of the first burial at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in November 1921. "Mimi" was 23 years old and worked in the water sanitation division of the U.S. Health Service in Washington, DC.
