Related pages :

War - Iraq War - War in Afghanistan - The Vietnam war - Wars with American Involvement

Cliparts and Photos :

• Veteran's Day Clip Art (about.com)
  
  

• Memorial Day Clip Art (about.com)
  
  
  

• Cliparts (yesnet.yk.ca)
  
  
  

• Veterans' Day (hellasmultimedia.com)
  
  
  
  

• Korean War Memorial - UPDATED
  
  
  
  

• Vietnam War Memorial (kestan.com)
  
  
  
  

• The Vietnam War (Lien brisé)
  
  
  
  

Vocabulary :

• Veterans Vocabulary - list and definitions (teach-nology.com)

Facts :

• How the Iraq war followed one veteran home
  "As the last US troops leave Iraq, the BBC's David Botti reflects on the nearly nine years of war.
  He served in Iraq as an infantryman in the US Marine Corps Reserve during the 2003 invasion.
  After he came home the war remained a presence in ways he couldn't have imagined."
  (BBC)

• Who, What, Why: Which countries wear poppies?
  "England footballers are not allowed to wear poppies when playing Spain at the weekend, says world football's governing body, Fifa.
  So what countries wear poppies to respect the war dead?"
  See : The answer + Why the poppy ? + Where did the idea to sell poppies come from?
  (BBC)
  
  

• Veterans battle homelessness as they return from war - Article + AUDIO
  "Approximately one in five homeless adults around the US is a veteran."
  (BBC)

  

• Remembrance (BBC)
  - with videos, WW1 Veteran Talks, WW2 People's War, an interactive memorial, poetry and art, lesson worksheets...
  
  

• Poppy Day - Remembrance Day - Nov 11 (traditions-uk)

• Definition of a Veteran (va.gov)

• Cool Facts About Veterans (va.gov)

• Medals and Memorials (va.gov)

• The Medal of Honor (cmohs.org)
  
  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Veterans Day Teaching Theme (Teach-nology) :
  Veterans Day Clip Art - Online Memorials - Veterans Day Background Information - Veterans Day Songs - Veterans Day Crafts - Veterans Day Vocabulary Builders - Veterans Day Interactive Sites - Veterans Day Web Quests - Veterans Day Lesson Plans - Veterans Day Worksheets
  
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Veterans Day Teaching Theme (Teach-nology) :
  Veterans Day Clip Art - Online Memorials - Veterans Day Background Information - Veterans Day Songs - Veterans Day Crafts - Veterans Day Vocabulary Builders - Veterans Day Interactive Sites - Veterans Day Web Quests - Veterans Day Lesson Plans - Veterans Day Worksheets

• Veterans' - Remembrance Day Resources (Teacher Planet) :
  Lessons and Units - Worksheets - Coloring Pages - Clipart & Images...

• Veterans Vocabulary Quiz Worksheet (teach-nology.com)
  - "Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right."

• Veterans Day - Worksheets (36 pages ) - (newsword.com)
  
  
  

• U.S.Wars Matchup (eduplace.com)
  - "Write the name of each war next to the time when it took place."

• Reading Comprehension Worksheet : Veterans (teach-nology.com)
  (text with 4 questions)
  
  
  

• Veteran's Day Crafts, Projects, and Printouts (Enchanted Learning)
  
  

Lesson plans :

• 11-11-11 (11th November, 2011) - a lesson plan with audio and activities.
  (newsenglishlessons.com)
  
  Blink and you'll miss it! Friday sees once-in-a-lifetime moment as time and date read 11.11.11 11.11.11
  Only occurs on one day every 100 years
  (dailymail.co.uk)
  
  
  
• Veterans Day : Lessons
  - "activities, music, and Web-based ideas to help the children in your classroom understand Veterans Day's significance."
  (Education World)
  
  

Webquests :

• TOMB OF THE UNKNOWNS - a scavenger hunt (educationworld.com)
  - "The Tomb of the Unknowns honors unidentified U.S. soldiers who died fighting for their country.
  What do you know about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
  Explore the Web site ... and then answer the questions about the Tomb."
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Word Jumble (va.gov)

Games TO PRINT :

• Veterans Day - crossword puzzle with definitions (makeworksheets.com)

• Veterans' Day - word search (thepotters.com)

• Veterans Word Search Worksheet (teach-nology.com)

• Veteran's Day Word Search (classbrain.com)

• Crossword Puzzle (eduplace.com)

• Veterans Crossword Puzzle Worksheet (teach-nology.com)

• Veterans Day Crossword Puzzle (classbrain.com)

• Veterans Day Crossword puzzle (advanced) (classbrain.com)

Songs and Literature :

• SOME GAVE ALL (angelfire.com)
  "All gave some and some gave all "
  - the VIDEO (YouTube)
  

• Folk Songs About Veterans (nwfolk.com)

• Songs and Poems (canteach.ca)

• Prose & Poetry (First World War.com) :
  Thomas Hardy - Ernest Hemingway - J.B. Priestley - Rudyard Kipling - H.G. Wells -
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

Cartoons :

Veterans' Day (cagle.com)

I have a delivery (cagle.com)

If you work for peace...

Videos :

• The Amazing Transformation of a Guy Who Didn't Give Up! (YouTube)

• Gettysburg Address - an animation - Lincoln's speech revisited.
  (vimeo.com)

  The Gettysburg Address "is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history.
  It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the 
  Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy 
  at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• Meet the Remembrance poppy makers
  "Millions of people wear Remembrance poppies in November, but for a few making the flowers is a year-round job."
  (BBC)

  

Cinema :

• Oliver Sherman "is a Canadian drama film, which premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival before going into general release in 2011.
  The film was directed by Ryan Redford, and written by Redford based on the short story "Veterans" by Rachel Ingalls.[1][2]"
  (Wikipedia)
  "Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war..."
  (imdb)