{"id":116526,"date":"2022-11-11T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T14:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116526"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T22:40:51","slug":"veterans-day-statistics-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116526","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day Statistics 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can find a page of 4 graphs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/vetdata\/docs\/QuickFacts\/Population_quickfacts.PDF\">there<\/a>. There is also a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/vetdata\/docs\/QuickFacts\/Reportsslideshow2016.PDF\">research summary here<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/vetdata\/docs\/Demographics\/New_Vetpop_Model\/Vetpop_Infographic_Final31.pdf\">infographic<\/a> there. An excellent short summary of the history of Veterans Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/vetsday\/vetdayhistory.asp\">may be found at this link<\/a>. Finally, a link for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/vets\">Veterans History Project is well worth your time exploring today<\/a>. The VA&#8217;s National Cemetery Administration currently maintains 155 national cemeteries (you can find more facts<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cem.va.gov\/facts\/Facts_About_NCA.asp\"> about the national Cemetery Administration<\/a> there).  Twenty percent (105,845 Veterans interred in FY 2020) of U.S. Veterans who died (estimated 592,682 in FY 2020) in the U.S. and Puerto Rico in FY 2020 were buried in a national, state or tribal Veterans cemetery. As new national, state and tribal Veterans cemeteries open, this percentage is expected to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a 16 page teachers guide for Veteran&#8217;s Day 2022 may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/vetsday\/docs\/2022-Veterans-Day-Teachers-Guide.pdf\">found there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To those in uniform serving today and to those who have served in the past, happy Veterans Day. &#x2764;&#xfe0f;&#x1f90d;&#x1f499; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e99DAxcXWQ\">pic.twitter.com\/e99DAxcXWQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Freshwater Land Trust (@FreshwaterLT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreshwaterLT\/status\/1591079579564871683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find a page of 4 graphs there. There is also a research summary here and an infographic there. An excellent short summary of the history of Veterans Day may be found at this link. Finally, a link for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=116526\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,133,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116534,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116526\/revisions\/116534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}