Veterans Day 2012

Jimmy Bacolo, right, of Staten Island, N.Y., a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars 5195 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, N.Y., attends the Veterans Day observance at the 9/11 Memorial, in New York, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. On the eve of the Veterans Day parade, at the 9/11 Memorial at the World Trade Center, a wreath was laid near the tree, which thrives more than a decade after it emerged from the smoking rubble.

Credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew