Editing Veterans Day (section)

==Observance==
Because it is a [[Federal holidays in the United States|federal holiday]], some American workers and many students have Veterans Day off from work or school. When Veterans Day falls on a Saturday then either Saturday or the preceding Friday may be designated as the holiday, whereas if it falls on a Sunday it is typically observed on the following Monday. When it falls on the weekend many private companies offer it as a floating holiday where employees can choose some other day.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} A [[Society for Human Resource Management]] poll in 2010 found that 21 percent of employers planned to observe the holiday in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=2011 Holiday Schedules SHRM Poll| website= shrm.org |publisher= Society for Human Resource Management |date=November 4, 2010 |url= http://www.shrm.org/Research/SurveyFindings/Articles/Pages/2011HolidaySchedules.aspx |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101204201227/http://www.shrm.org/Research/SurveyFindings/Articles/Pages/2011HolidaySchedules.aspx |url-status= dead |archive-date= December 4, 2010 }}</ref>  

Legally, two minutes of silence is recommended to be observed at 2:11pm [[Eastern Standard Time]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=[USC02] 36 USC 145: Veterans Day|url=https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title36-section145&num=0&edition=prelim |website= uscode.house.gov | publisher= US House of Representatives |access-date=2021-03-05}}</ref> 

Non-essential federal government offices are closed. No mail is delivered. All federal workers are paid for the holiday; those who are required to work on the holiday sometimes receive holiday pay for that day in addition to their wages.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Castro|first=Danilo|date=2019-11-11|title=Is Sam's Club Open or Closed on Veterans Day 2019?|url=https://heavy.com/entertainment/2019/11/is-sams-club-open-closed-veterans-day-2019/|access-date=2021-03-17|website=Heavy.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

===Armistice Day===
In his Armistice Day address to Congress, Wilson was sensitive to the psychological toll of the lean War years: "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness," he remarked.<ref name="Smith 2007 290">{{cite book |title= The Oxford companion to American food and drink |last= Smith|first= Andrew F.|year= 2007|publisher= Oxford University Press, Inc|location= New York|isbn= 978-0-19-530796-2|page= 290|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AoWlCmNDA3QC&q=armistice+day&pg=PT317|access-date=November 12, 2010}}</ref> As Veterans Day and the birthday of the [[United States Marine Corps]] (November 10, 1775) are only one day apart, that branch of the Armed Forces customarily observes both occasions as a 96-hour liberty period.{{cn|date=November 2019}}

[[Election Day (United States)|Election Day]] is a regular working day, while Veterans Day, which typically falls the following week, is a federal holiday. The National Commission on Federal Election Reform called for the holidays to be merged, so citizens can have a day off to vote. They state this as a way to honor voting by exercising democratic rights.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sutter|first1=John D.|title=Election Day should be a federal holiday|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/12/opinion/ctl-election-holiday/|access-date=October 20, 2016|work=CNN.com |date=November 12, 2012}}</ref>

===Spelling of Veterans Day===
While the holiday is commonly printed as ''Veteran's Day'' or ''Veterans' Day'' in calendars and advertisements, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs website states that the [[attributive noun|attributive]] (no apostrophe) rather than the [[possessive case]] is the official spelling "because it is not a day that 'belongs' to veterans, it is a day for honoring all veterans."<ref name=":0">{{cite web| url= http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetday_faq.asp |title= Veterans Day Frequently Asked Questions| website= va.gov | publisher= Office of Public Affairs, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs| date= July 20, 2015 |access-date= November 8, 2015}}</ref>