11/11 is Veterans Day in the US. It is "observed" as a legal holiday (that is, a day off for government workers) on the Friday or Monday closest to it if it falls on a weekend.

I sit here at my parents' house, and it is likely my father's last Veterans Day. He is a WW2 and Korean War vet and most of his generation is already gone. Very few of those who fought in the war for which the holiday was originally established remain. However, more veterans are created every day, all over the world, and (with a miniscule number of exceptions) all of them served their nations and their nations' causes honorably. When you remember and honor these individuals, remember their service and direct the finger-pointing elsewhere.