Is It Veterans’ Day, Veteran’s Day, or Veterans Day?

As November 11 approaches, some people may wonder how to write the name of the November 11 American holiday that commemorates the end of world-war hostilities in 1918 and 1945 as well as all who have served the U.S. Armed Forces. Do we use an apostrophe when spelling Veterans Day?

The answer is no. According to the U.S. Department of Defense, “The holiday is not a day that ‘belongs’ to one veteran or multiple veterans, which is what an apostrophe implies. It’s a day for honoring all veterans, so no apostrophe needed.”

  • @Godric
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    119 days ago

    Man, that’s a uniquely disgusting way to remember the folks killed to save their country and other countries from domination.

    You might try and fuck off with that attitude for one day

    • Johanno
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      339 days ago

      I mean you have a very filtered view on American wars. Almost none of them were in order to save America and didn’t result in a better situation for the country.

      • @[email protected]
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        9 days ago

        And most of the WW2 vets are dead so this old geezer was in Korea or Vietnam.

        If he was enlisted, fair enough, probably got drafted as a slave soldier for capitalism, but officers are almost always volunteers.

    • Cethin
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      69 days ago

      To be fair, that’s memorial day not veterans day.

    • @Solumbran
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      59 days ago

      I never said they are not useful or necessary. But I refuse to consider murder to be something heroic. Now if your moral structure allows you to consider that killing can be good, I just hope for you that people who don’t like you don’t think the same.

      • @RampantParanoia2365
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        18 days ago

        I hope you’re not responding to me, because that would not be murder, it would be slaying a monster.

        • @Solumbran
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          18 days ago

          Once again, I hope for you that people who see you as a monster don’t think the same.

          • @RampantParanoia2365
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            18 days ago

            Well, when I intentionally mishandle a pandemic disease in order to wipe out part of a population and request testing be slowed down to influence statistics, I’ll let you know.