Over the past few
days, United States veterans who have served in the armed forces were
honored during Veterans Day events. It coincided with other countries
marking Armistice Day or Remembrance day (Poppy Day), when in the 11th
hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the armistice between the allied
nations and Germany in 1918 effectively ended World War I. -- Lloyd Young ( 37 photos total)

Kevin
Palmer of Goshen, Ct., holds Michele Mathews on his shoulders as she
makes a rubbing of where Palmer's uncle, Douglas Palmer's name is
inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial the day after Veterans Day on
Nov. 12 in Washington, D.C. Douglas Palmer died in 1966 while serving
in the Navy in Vietnam. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)