Veterans Day's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs

How the card is assigned

5 U.S.C. § 6103(a) names Veterans Day on November 11. Card Blueprints uses that month and day only. Solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). December 31 is the Joker. The year is unused. Weekend observed days are ignored.

Coordinate: the 9 of Clubs. Card meaning page: /birth-card/9-of-clubs.

Not the observed weekday

OPM calendars sometimes list a Friday or Monday in lieu of November 11 when that date falls on a weekend. This page does not follow those shifts. The coordinate is the statutory day.

Other fixed holidays on the 9 of Clubs

No other fixed federal holiday in this set maps to this card.

Veterans Day on the record

Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. It coincides with holidays in several countries, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which also occur on the anniversary of the end of World War I. Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. Veterans Day is distinct from Memorial Day, a U.S. public holiday in May: Veterans Day commemorates the service of all U.S. veterans, while the older Memorial Day, which grew out of Civil War commemorations, specifically honors those who have died while in military service. Another military holiday that also occurs in May, Armed Forces Day, honors those currently serving in the U.S. military. Additionally, Women Veterans Day is recognized by a growing number of U.S. states that specifically honor women who have served in the U.S. military. On November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued a message to his countrymen on the first Armistice Day, in which he expressed what he felt the day meant to Americans: A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and more just set of international relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half. With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought. Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men. To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations. The United States Congress adopted a resolution on June 4, 1926, requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue annual proclamations calling for the observance of November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. A Congressional Act (52 Stat. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made November 11 in each year a legal holiday: "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'".

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Veterans Day (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. The statutory date comes from 5 U.S.C. § 6103(a), not from this article.

FAQ

What date does Veterans Day use?

November 11 — the date named in 5 U.S.C. § 6103(a). Month and day assign the card; the year is unused. Observed weekend shifts are ignored.

What is Veterans Day's birth card?

The 9 of Clubs. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the holiday.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: 5 U.S.C. § 6103(a) via Cornell LII. OPM federal-holiday calendars are cited for observed-year schedules only and are not the mapping source.

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