<P> In his Armistice Day address to Congress, Wilson was sensitive to the psychological toll of the lean War years: "Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness," he remarked . As Veterans Day and the birthday of the United States Marine Corps (November 10, 1775) are only one day apart, that branch of the Armed Forces customarily observes both occasions as a 96 - hour liberty period . </P> <P> Election Day is a regular working day, while Veterans Day, which typically falls the following week, is a federal holiday . The National Commission on Federal Election Reform called for the holidays to be merged, so citizens can have a day off to vote . They state this as a way to honor voting by exercising democratic rights . </P> <P> While the holiday is commonly printed as Veteran's Day or Veterans' Day in calendars and advertisements (spellings that are grammatically acceptable), the United States Department of Veterans Affairs website states that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling "because it is not a day that' belongs' to veterans, it is a day for honoring all veterans ." </P>

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