Veteran's Day & Elections

Veterans History Project http://www.loc.gov/vets/ 
This project collects and preserves stories of wartime service.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/
Teacher resources and lots of information.

Infoplease: Veterans Day http://www.infoplease.com/spot/veteransday1.html
Veterans' statistics, history of the holiday, war poetry, and more.

Read-Write-Think: Veterans Day http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=339 
Classroom activities, lesson plans, weblinks and much more.

On This Day http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1110.html 
This historical article, from the New York Times Learning Network,
announces the opening of the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

America's Wars http://www1.va.gov/pressrel/amwars01.htm 
This page, created by the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2001,
provides tables showing the total servicemen and casualties in all the
wars in which the U.S. has taken part. Another chart shows projections
for how many veterans of the two World Wars will still survive up to 2020.

Ben's Guide to U.S. Elections http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/election/index.html 
Information that explains the election process.

America Votes 2006 http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2006/ 
Check the midterm race analysis and read about the issues on this site.

Voting! What's it all About? http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=396
Cross-curricular lesson plan devoted to elections and voting information.

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