Editing Veterans Day (section)

===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>