Native Americans serve in the U.S. military due to their cultural values and a proud warrior tradition built on strength, honor, pride, devotion, and wisdom. 

The meaning of Veterans Day easily can be lost if not taught to the next generation of Americans. This requires cultivating values like loyalty, bravery, national pride, and, most of all, the willingness to lay down one's life in defense of America’s founding principles. It also requires us to understand what is so special about the Constitution of the United States, to which every servicemember swears an oath. No mere document is worth dying for, but the ideas, values, and convictions contained within our founding documents are.

On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental Congress. Since that date thousands of men and women have borne the name "Marine." In their memory, we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.

If you are part of an active-duty military family, we want to sincerely thank you for your sacrifice and all this entails. If you play a support role to a military family, we want to thank you, too. You play a pivotal role in supporting your military family even if it is just a listening ear.

On any given day, thousands of United States Armed Services personnel are being deployed around the world.