Hi guys, we also mark 11/11 here in UK but our equivalent of Veterans' Day is tomorrow - Remembrance Sunday - when we remember all those who have served and suffered in the cause of freedom.
There are acts of Remembrance all around the country at 11:00 (eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and in London, there is a service of commemoration at the Cenotaph in Whitehall attended by our heads of Government, Senior Officers of our Armed Forces, Foreign Dignitaries and, of course, our Royal Family.
As a 24-year service Veteran I invariably shed a tear just to think of the loss suffered by those who have been less fortunate than I have been
The really moving part for me though, is when the formal marks of respect are over, the prayers have been said, the hymns are all sung and the large wreaths of poppies have been placed at the base of the Cenotaph by the representatives of "Officialdom".
Then it is the turn of the real heroes - the people who actually did the fighting and suffered the wounds - both physical and psychological.
They march past, proudly bearing their medals as reminders of their previous lives, some are Sailors wearing the white berets of the Arctic convoys.
Some are soldiers - with the green, maroon or fawn berets of our Special Forces Marines, Para and SAS
The Scottish Regiments - now sadly depleted by the bleeding hearted Liberals who would give away all our hard earned freedoms.
And then there are those who cannot walk unaided but are propelled in wheelchairs by their helpers.
Most moving of all for me however are the blinded veterans from St Dunstan
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