U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Michael Franken, left, Commander Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, and Brig. Gen. William Kurtz, French Forces Djibouti commander, render a hand-salute to German military forces during an international Veterans/Remembrance Day Ceremony on the 5th French Marines Battalion Monclar Barracks, Nov. 11. America's Veteran's Day is a day set aside to honor the veterans of America's wars. It was originally known as Armistice Day to commemorate the official ending of hostilities in World War I, which occurred at the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918.