Members of Boy Scouts of America Cub Scout pack 461, based at Joint Base Lewis McChord, place flags on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during Veterans Day observances, Nov. 11, 2010, in Olympia, Wash.

U.S. Marine Capt. Jill A. Leyden of Woodbridge, VA, kneels at the grave of her friend Major Megan M. McClung at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010.
McClung was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom on December 6, 2006. Leyden and McClung served together in Iraq.

U.S. Airforce Captain Kevin Chelf and Staff Sargent Cecilia Toomey walk along a corridor with walls indicating names of American and Filipino soldiers who died in war during the annual Veteran's day ceremonies held inside the Manila American Cemetery in Taguig City, south of Manila, Philippines on November 11. United States Ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas joined surviving war veterans to pay tribute to American and Filipino troops killed in World War II at the cemetery, where more than 17, 000 American military and 570 Filipino counterparts are buried.

A picture of U.S. Army Corporal Jeffrey Dennis Straface who died serving in Vietnam in 1968, left at the base of Memorial Wall, at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C, on November 10. The Washington Monument can be seen the background.

Veteran Clarence Kraemer plays Taps during a funeral for a fallen veteran at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Bloomington, Minn. on Nov. 2.

U.S. Marines help their wounded comrade to a helicopter while under fire during a Medevac mission in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province November 10, 2010.

U.S. President Barack Obama greets military personnel at a Veterans Day event at the U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan in Seoul on Nov. 11.

The sun rises behind a statue posed in salute at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Ohio on Nov. 10.

A flower is tied to the headstone of a Vietnam-era soldier at Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Ohio on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Some 16,300 military members along with some of their wives and dependent children are buried or interned at the cemetery. Veteran's Day will be observed on Thursday. The first Armistice Day was marked on November 11, 1919.

Thistles rise from a field adjoining the Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery in Rittman, Ohio where some 16,300 military members, along with some of their wives and dependent children are buried, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. Veteran's Day will be observed on Thursday. The first Armistice Day was marked on November 11, 1919. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)