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==See also== {{Portal|Holidays|United States}} ===United States=== * [[Remembrance Day at the Gettysburg Battlefield]], an annual honoring of Civil War dead held near the anniversary of the [[Gettysburg Address]] * [[A Great Jubilee Day]], first held the last Monday in May 1783 ([[American Revolutionary War]]) * [[Armed Forces Day#United States|Armed Forces Day]], third Saturday in May, a more narrowly observed remembrance honoring those currently serving in the U.S. military * [[Armistice Day]], November 11, the original name of Veterans Day in the United States * [[Confederate Memorial Day]], observed on various dates in many states in the South in memory of those killed fighting for the Confederacy during the American Civil War * [[Memorial Day massacre of 1937]], May 30, held to remember demonstrators shot by police in Chicago * [[Nora Fontaine Davidson]], credited with the first Memorial Day ceremony in Petersburg, Virginia * [[Patriot Day]], September 11, in memory of people killed in the September 11 attacks * [[United States military casualties of war]] * [[Veterans Day]], November 11, honoring American military veterans, both alive and deceased ===Other countries=== * [[ANZAC Day]], April 25, an analogous observance in Australia and New Zealand * [[Armistice Day]], November 11, the original name of Veterans Day in the United States and Remembrance Day in Canada, the United Kingdom, and other Commonwealth nations * [[Heroes' Day]], various dates in various countries recognizing national heroes * [[International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers]], May 29, international observance recognizing United Nations peacekeepers * [[Remembrance Day]], November 11, a similar observance in Canada, the United Kingdom, and many other Commonwealth nations originally marking the end of World War I * [[Remembrance of the Dead]] ("Dodenherdenking"), May 4, a similar observance in the Netherlands * [[Volkstrauertag]] ("People's Mourning Day"), a similar observance in Germany usually in November * [[Yom HaZikaron|Yom Hazikaron]] (Israeli memorial day), the day before [[Independence Day (Israel)]], around [[Iyar]] 4 * [[Decoration Day (Canada)]], a Canadian holiday that recognizes veterans of Canada's military which has largely been eclipsed by the similar Remembrance Day * [[Memorial Day (South Korea)]], June 6, the day to commemorate the men and women who died while in military service during the Korean War and other significant wars or battles * [[Victoria Day]], a Canadian holiday on the last Monday before May 25 each year, lacks the military memorial aspects of Memorial Day but serves a similar function as marking the start of cultural summer
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