Veteran groups reject Trump's proposal to rename the veteran day

President Trump's announcement that on November 11th he wanted to change the name of the Veterans Day to the “Wiegertag for the First World War” led to a counter -reaction from some veteran groups, which complained that the step was conquering sacrificial sacrifices and ignoring the victims of most living veterans.

In a social media post in late Thursday, Mr. Trump also said that on May 8, the date on which Nazi -Deutschland in 1945, instead of victory on the day of Europe or in the Ve Day “Victory Day for World War II”, would be known, as in the United States.

However, some veterans representative groups said that the focus of the new names on the winning veterans, which served in newer wars, achieved more mixed results.

“It is not the fault of the veterans if we don't win wars,” said Allison Jaslow, Managing Director of Iraq and Afghan veterans of America, which also served in Iraq. She added that “the veterans day should be recognized by the way in which Americans have protected and sacrificed to protect and defend what we have in America”.

In 2023, the census counted 15.8 million veterans who lived in America. This year the Department of Veterans Affairs estimated that around 66,000 veterans lived in World War II. There are no surviving veterans of the First World War.

This means that with Mr. Trump's proposed name changes, more than 99 percent of the living veterans – a group, the vice president JD Vance, who worked with the marines in Iraq, is left at their duty without a holiday holiday.