I didn’t know if any European countries observe Veterans Day, but I wanted to extend greetings to my fellow veterans on this day. I served in Viet Nam in 1970-71.
We observe Veterans Day on November 11th because it grew out of Armistice Day, the commemoration of the end of World War I on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
Most countries have a day for this, in the Uk its Remembrance Day (same date).
Oz/NZ its Anzac Day ( April 25th)
Thanks for your service, Mark. My son is currently deployed. Please keep him and his family in your thoughts and prayers. As well as all our vets, and active duty service men and women.
Yeah one of my favourite days of the year meet up with good old friends a pay our respects, then back to my old mess and chat about the good old days 
Not veterans perhaps (even though veterans are honored on this day, too) but a National Independence Day here in Poland… On 11.11.1918, along with the end of WWI, my country regained independence after 134 years of partition imposed on Poland by force in the period of her weakness by three neighboring powers.
I spent four years Army Signal Corps in the mid 80s, all stateside. My former employer used to hold a Veteran’s Day lunch and everybody else had much better stories than me. It wasn’t the career for me but I definitely feel I benefited from my Army time.
I had to check Hungarian WIkipedia to see if anything like that is observed here officially. I found a “day of defence forces” and another remembrance day for those who died protecting the country’s independence, both in May. Neither of these is observed by the average person.
The stories I’ve heard about the Hungarian army of the 1960s to the 1980s made it look like a pointless waste of 2 years for those who didn’t want to become career officers. (Also, military service was compulsory but there were ways to avoid it, and Hungary was part of the Warsaw Pact that did not last very long.)
As a pacifist, I don’t agree with killing other people without their consent.
I am happy to remember all those who die in conflicts past and present.
I wear a white poppy around this time of year 
It’s still called Armistice Day here, and still is a national holiday. Every village has it’s monument for the inhabitants who fought and died in the world wars, and there usually is some kind of ceremony with flowers being laid down at the monument.
same here in france , its to commemorate the end of the first world war
We dodged the bullet during the first world war and were mainly a relief camp for our Belgian neighbors… we are not talking about the second world war, what we did and did not do there… but what was left with was - May 4th fallen Remembrance Day and May 5th Liberation Day - important days for me and my wife that we do not take lightly… Veterans Day has in recent years become the last Saturday in June, where all types of veterans are commemorated… I never thought that that would be a serious day in my life because during my time in service the entire army was almost completely disbanded because Russia was no longer an enemy and world peace was just around the corner …well 
Ps: I was literally the very last groep of 30+ people in the air force, and In the army , some people were called up for their number only less than a year …
