For more than seven decades, Americans have done on this day the least they can do in thanking those who have gathered arms to fight for their freedom and safety. Since 1954, we have taken pause on Veterans Day to show our gratitude to the men and women who have selflessly put their lives on the line for our well-being as part of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Think about that sacrifice: young men and women saying good-bye to their loved ones to travel to all corners of the earth. Many of them over the years have placed themselves in the middle of armed combat, fighting so that the horrors they saw would never reach the eyes of those loved ones and neighbors back home.

Some never came back. Others came back forever changed.

Many of those veterans continue their service to their country in many

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