If you plan on eating out this Veterans Day weekend, make sure Heinz Ketchup is your condiment of choice. WTOP reports that Heinz is collaborating with the Wounded Warriors Project and the USO to make it easy to donate and thank America's troops. more ›

Hey, a whole bunch of the city has the day off tomorrow! (Our regards to those who don't.) more ›

Friday, Veterans Day, is a national holiday. While the day off will certainly be enjoyed by the federal employees in our midst, it's going to be a downright bummer for Metro riders who are depending on the Green Line to get them where they need to go. more ›

From time to time, we like to dip into the DCist Flickr pool to illustrate weekends in D.C., fall foliage, the aftermath of extreme weather and the occasional dinosaur Civil War reenactment. Today, in honor of Veterans Day, we thought that we'd share a few moving images from the pool -- some of which mark solemn remembrance, others just to acknowledge the sacrifice of those who have defended the United States, at home and abroad. more ›

Veterans Day -- yet another one of those holidays where many non-federal employees still have to show up to the office -- is tomorrow, and just like Columbus Day, Metro and other local transit agencies will be operating on modified schedules. Metrorail will operate on a Saturday schedule, though the system will open at 5 a.m. and close at midnight, as it would on a weekday. Metrobus has several routes that will not be in operation tomorrow in Maryland and Virginia -- a full list of those routes can be found in a PDF we've embedded after the jump, which outlines Metro's new modified holiday schedule. more ›

Arriving in D.C. today is Chris Cuddihy, a multiple marathon runner (and, full disclosure, a friend from my hometown) who set out Saturday to run from New York City to D.C. in order to raise money and awareness for Wounded Warriors, a group that provides services and programs to help the most seriously wounded returning soldiers and their families. more ›

If you're still looking for a place to honor our nation's veterans later today, here's a few suggestions: more ›

Veterans Day is Tuesday, which means federal workers have the day off and transit schedules will be different. WMATA says that Metro will be operating on a modified Saturday schedule tomorrow; that means the system will open at the regular 5 a.m. time, but peak travel times will operate on a non-peak basis. In other words, budget a little extra time on your way in to work tomorrow, since there will be fewer trains running than normal. Other changes for Tuesday include that off-peak fares will be in effect all day and parking at all Metro lots will be free. Metrobus and MetroAccess will operate on a normal, non-holiday schedule. more ›

Happy Almost Holidays, Washington. With both Monday and Tuesday counting as a holiday for the federal government this year, most of D.C. is staring down a nice, long holiday break today. Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, federal holidays are great for a lot of other reasons besides a day off - you don't have to feed parking meters, for instance. But The Examiner reports that that fact isn't stopping people from shoveling coins into meters on holidays anyway, especially those fancy new multispace meters: last Veterans Day, the city collected nearly $1,500 from multispace meters. DDOT says it is going to put stickers on the new meters along K Street to remind people that they don't have to pay on holidays. more ›

Flickr user polytropos had a number of excellent photos from down at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial over the weekend. With today being Veterans Day, and just two days shy of the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the Memorial, there was no doubt today's photo would come from that set. It was this black and white shot, not of the wall itself, but of the directory of names, in black and white with a bright glow illuminating the book, that really struck us. more ›

If you are looking for a musical way to celebrate Veterans Day, the Washington Chorus will perform its annual Tribute and Reflection concert this afternoon (November 11, 3 p.m.), in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall (tickets: $15 to $55). Their program includes Joseph Haydn's martial Mass in Time of War. Although there are not that many classical music concerts in the early part of the week, the schedule for next weekend is about as full... more ›

The United States Park Police, DDOT and MPD have released the following road closure advisories for Saturday's Veterans Day Parade. All closures should be re-opened by 5 p.m. Saturday. more ›

Good morning, Washington. If you are lucky enough to work for the government or elsewhere that follows the federal work calendar, many of you have today off in observance of Veterans Day. At Arlington Cemetery a free public wreath-laying ceremony and ceremony at the Memorial Amphitheater are planned for 11:00 a.m. If you are chained behind a desk we plan to provide the usual distractions. For more information about what's operating on a normal schedule... more ›

We realize that some of you may have taken an extended four-day weekend for the Veterans Day holiday, so here's some of what you may have missed since your last visit. (DCist photo of Reflecting Pool at dusk Sunday by Mike Grass) >> Center for Science in the Public Interest classifies Cheesecake Factory no-carb cheesecake as "food porn." >> The NTSB scolded WMATA back in 1996 about the possibility of train cars falling apart... more ›

Good morning, Washington. We're sure that with many of you off for Veterans Day yesterday, you may have taken today off as well. Enjoy your four-day weekend and a rainy Friday. more ›

Veterans Day is tomorrow and the official observance of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month will bring a whole host of closures and modified schedules. Check out the District's rundown of Veterans Day events and closures. Veterans Day is rooted in Armistice Day, which remembers when the guns fell silent on the Western Front during the first World War. In a city that has memorials dedicated to Armenian earthquake victims,... more ›