Veterans Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Also, I show you my non-traditional MAXICARD about OPERATION DESERT STORM, with a pentagonal postmark from Arlington, Virginia

Veterans Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Veterans Day
Joseph Ambrose, a then-86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982, holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was killed in that war.
Official name	Veterans Day
Observed by	United States
Type	Federal
Significance	Honors the 24.9 million military veterans in the United States
Date	November 11 (or nearest weekday)
Observances	Parades, ceremonies honoring local veterans
Related to	Armistice Day, Remembrance Day

"The holiday is often celebrated by having a ravioli meal. 

This tradition dates back to the ending days of World War I when President Woodrow Wilson, aware that the returning soldiers would be longing for home cooked meals, invited 2,000 soldiers to the White House and helped his staff chefs cook them ravioli, which had just become a mainstay in mainstream American kitchens due to commercial canning.^[8] 

In his Armistice Day address to Congress, Wilson was sensitive to the psychological toll of the lean War years: "Hunger," he remarked, "breeds madness.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_day

I show you my non-traditional MAXICARD about OPERATION DESERT STORM, with a pentagonal postmark from Arlington, Virginia.

Gulf War
Clockwise from top: USAF aircraft flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops in Operation Granby; Camera view from aLockheed AC-130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle
Date 2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991 (210 days) (Operation Desert Shield officially ended 30 November 1995)[1] Location Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Israel Result Coalition victory Imposition of sanctions against Iraq Removal of Iraqi invasion force from Kuwait Heavy Iraqi casualties and destruction of Iraqi and Kuwaiti infrastructure
Belligerents
Coalition forces:  Kuwait United States United Kingdom Arab League  Saudi Arabia  Egypt  Syria  Morocco  Qatar  Oman  United Arab Emirates  France  Denmark[2]  Belgium  Pakistan  Canada  Australia  New Zealand  Argentina  Spain  Italy  Bangladesh  Niger  Poland  Czechoslovakia  Greece  South Korea  Hungary and others	Iraq
Commanders and leaders
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah  George H. W. Bush  Norman Schwarzkopf  Colin Powell  Calvin Waller  John Major  Patrick Hine  Andrew Wilson  Peter de la Billière  John Chapple  King Fahd  Prince Abdullah  Prince Sultan  Turki Al-Faisal  Saleh Al-Muhaya  Khalid bin Sultan[3][4]  Michel Roquejoffre  Mohamed Hussein Tantawi  Mustafa Tlass  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani  Mirza Aslam Beg	Saddam Hussein  Ali Hassan al-Majid  Salah Aboud Mahmoud
Strength
956,600[5]	545,000 (100,000 in Kuwait)[citation needed]
Casualties and losses
Coalition: 392 killed[6] 776 wounded[7] Kuwait: 1,200 killed[citation needed]	20,000-35,000 killed 75,000+ wounded[7]
Kuwaiti civilian losses: Over 1,000 killed[8] Iraqi civilian losses: About 3,664 killed[9] Other civilian losses: 2 Israeli civilians killed, 230 injured[10] 1 Saudi civilian killed, 65 injured[11]

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