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Plains of Abraham
Plains of Abraham (Plaines d'Abraham), a 98-hectare historic urban park in Quebec City named for settler Abraham Martin, site of the 1759 Wolfe-Montcalm battle and Canada's first national historic park, run since 1908 by the National Battlefields Commission.
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal: Canadian commemorative medal (2012) marking the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth II's accession as Queen of Canada; 60,000 awarded, 11,000 to Canadian Forces; administered by the Chancellery of Honours, Rideau Hall.
Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal
Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal: Canadian provincial commemorative medal (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, PEI, Saskatchewan, Alberta) marking the 70th anniversary of the 1952 accession; 32 mm silver design, authorized for wear by P.C. 2022-1192; distinct from the UK medal.
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day, formerly Armistice Day, is observed on 11 November in Commonwealth countries such as Canada, Australia, and the UK to honor war dead, marking the 1918 armistice with silence and poppies.
Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday, also known as Armistice Sunday, is the United Kingdom's annual day of remembrance for the British and Commonwealth armed forces, held on the second Sunday of November.
Sapun Gora Memorial Complex
Мемориальный комплекс Сапун Гора (Sapun Gora Memorial Complex) in Sevastopol commemorates the 7 May 1944 assault; includes the 1959 diorama by Maltsev, obelisk, Eternal Flame, and park.
Statue of Peace (평화의소녀상)
Statue of Peace (평화의 소녀상, Sonyeosang), bronze comfort women memorial by Kim Eun-sung and Kim Seo-kyung, erected December 14, 2011 before the Japanese Embassy in Seoul at the 1,000th Wednesday Demonstration; replicated worldwide amid Japanese removal demands.
The Commandery
The Commandery, Worcester: Grade I listed timber-framed building on Sidbury, founded late 11th century as the Hospital of St Wulstan, Royalist headquarters at the 1651 Battle of Worcester, later a blind college and printworks, now a Civil War museum.
The Hiker (Kitson)
The Hiker (Kitson) is a bronze Spanish-American War infantryman statue by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, first made in 1906 for the University of Minnesota and cast at least 50 times by Gorham from 1921 to 1965.
The Unknown Warrior
The Unknown Warrior: unidentified First World War British soldier buried in Westminster Abbey on 11 November 1920, chosen blind at St Pol by General Wyatt, repatriated aboard HMS Verdun; counterpart to France's Arc de Triomphe Unknown Soldier.
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: a memorial holding an unidentified service member representing all unrecovered war dead. Began with Britain's Unknown Warrior and France's Unknown Soldier on 11 November 1920; Arlington's tomb holds three unknowns and is guarded 24/7 by the Old Guard.
Tyne Cot
Tyne Cot is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Zonnebeke, Belgium. It holds graves from the First World War and features a memorial to nearly 35,000 missing servicemen.
United States Army 250th Anniversary Parade
The United States Army 250th Anniversary Parade, held June 14, 2025 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., marked the Army's semiquincentennial with 6,700 soldiers, tanks, and flyovers; it coincided with Trump's 79th birthday, cost about $30 million, and drew under 200,000 attendees amid No Kings protests.
Valley Forge
Valley Forge: the 1777-1778 winter encampment of Washington's Continental Army near Philadelphia, where von Steuben's training and the French alliance forged a professional army; now a 3,500-acre national historical park.
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Vergangenheitsbewältigung, or "coming to terms with the past" (Geschichtsaufarbeitung), is Germany's political and cultural effort to confront the crimes of the Nazi dictatorship and, since 1990, the East German SED dictatorship.
Veterans Day
Veterans Day, formerly Armistice Day, is the U.S. federal holiday on November 11 honoring all who served in the Armed Forces, marking the 1918 World War I armistice; renamed by Public Law 380 in 1954.
West Point Cemetery
West Point Cemetery, at the U.S. Military Academy, New York, is America's oldest military post cemetery, designated in 1817, with 9,396 burials on 11.379 acres including Schwarzkopf, Edward White II, and Medal of Honor recipients.
World War I memorials
World War I memorials, or First World War memorials, are the cemeteries, monuments, and cenotaphs built after 1918 to honor and name the war dead.
World War II Memorial
The World War II Memorial, also called the National WWII Memorial, honors the 16 million Americans who served in World War II and the 400,000 who died.
Zone rouge
Zone Rouge: red-penciled zones of northeastern France isolated after WWI under the 1919 war-damage law, including nine destroyed Verdun villages and the reforested Verdun forest, still restricted for unexploded ordnance.