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Fort Lauderdale’s 2026 Veterans Day Ceremony at Holiday Park
Most mornings at Holiday Park, people are out walking their dogs or heading to the tennis courts. This Veterans Day, there’s another reason to visit. On Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at 11 a.m., the City of Fort Lauderdale and William C. Morris American Legion Post 36 are inviting our community to honor those who served. The ceremony is free and open to everyone at the North American F-86H Sabre Jet Memorial in Holiday Park, 1150 G. Harold Martin Drive.
Here at Denteast, one of the things we love about being a neighborhood practice is how gradually you get to know someone. You might know how a neighbor takes her coffee, where her children went to school, and the name of the dog she walks every morning before you learn that she served in the Navy. November 11 gives us an occasion to pick up the phone, invite someone to the park, or say something we’ve been meaning to say for years.
Why we pause at eleven in Fort Lauderdale
At eleven in the morning on November 11, 1918, the armistice between Germany and the Allies took effect, bringing the fighting on the Western Front to a halt. A year later, President Woodrow Wilson marked the first Armistice Day. Congress made it a federal holiday in 1938, dedicating the day to the cause of world peace.
After World War II and the Korean War, veterans’ organizations asked that the observance include those who had served in later conflicts. On June 1, 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the law that gave the holiday its present name, Veterans Day. Today, it honors everyone who served in the United States Armed Forces, in wartime and in peace. That history is why eleven o’clock carries such meaning at a neighborhood park in Fort Lauderdale.
Where Fort Lauderdale will gather
The City of Fort Lauderdale and William C. Morris American Legion Post 36 will host this year’s ceremony on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at 11 a.m. The gathering is free and open to the community at the North American F-86H Sabre Jet Memorial in Holiday Park, 1150 G. Harold Martin Drive.
If you’re bringing someone younger, the hour offers a simple way to explain why everyone is there. More than a century ago, families were waiting for word that the fighting had stopped. Here in Fort Lauderdale, at that same hour, we get to stand beside people whose service is part of our own families’ histories.
An old friendship, from Yorktown to Normandy
Long before American soldiers landed in France, French soldiers and sailors crossed the Atlantic to help Americans win their independence from Britain. France formally allied itself with the United States in 1778. Three years later, French and American forces fought together at Yorktown, where the British surrender helped secure American independence.
That friendship eventually gave New York one of its most recognizable landmarks. French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty was built in France, taken apart, shipped across the Atlantic, and reassembled on what is now Liberty Island in New York Harbor. The statue was dedicated in 1886. Paris has a Lady Liberty of its own, too. A quarter-scale replica was dedicated on the Île aux Cygnes in the Seine on July 4, 1889, three years after the New York original.
On June 6, 1944, American troops landed at Omaha and Utah beaches in Normandy as British and Canadian forces came ashore farther east. The Allies had a military objective: establish a foothold in occupied France from which they could liberate Western Europe and defeat Nazi Germany. Seen alongside Yorktown, D-Day also holds a particular meaning for the two countries. French families had once sent their sons across the Atlantic to fight for American independence. Now American families waited for news from the coast of France.
The cost of that campaign is still visible above Omaha Beach. At the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, 9,389 American service members are buried. Most lost their lives in the D-Day landings or the operations that followed. Farther east, Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie belongs to a later chapter. It became a crossing between East and West Berlin in 1961, during the Cold War.
This trailer was made by Michael Edwards.
This unofficial trailer for Saving Private Ryan was created by British video editor Michael Edwards. The film was released in 1998, and we wanted to share Edwards’s modern take on how to introduce it to a new generation of viewers.
The Denteast team recommends Saving Private Ryan
If you choose a film for Veterans Day, our team recommends Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan (1998). We consider it one of the finest World War II films ever made, and its depiction of the D-Day landing at Omaha Beach is a large part of why. Spielberg grew up listening to his father Arnold talk about serving with a bomber squadron in the Pacific during World War II. We like knowing that a film of this scale has something as personal as a son listening to his father at the heart of it.
The premise is simple. In the days following D-Day, Captain John Miller, played by Tom Hanks, leads a small group of American soldiers into Normandy to find Private James Francis Ryan, played by Matt Damon. Ryan’s three brothers have been killed in the war, and the men have orders to bring him home. Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies round out the ensemble. Between battles, the men trade stories, tease each other, and talk about home. Little by little, you begin to recognize each voice.
What stays with us is how closely Spielberg and director of photography Janusz Kamiński keep the camera to the men. In the landing craft, you can see Miller’s hand tremble. On Omaha Beach, the camera is practically our eyes. For a few moments, the sound falls away, someone is calling to Miller, and we can see the man’s mouth moving as Miller struggles to hear him. A history book can show us where the troops landed. This sequence asks us to imagine what it took for one person to get his bearings and look after the man beside him.
Saving Private Ryan earned 11 Academy Award nominations and won five Oscars, including Best Director for Spielberg and Best Cinematography for Kamiński. If this is your first viewing, we’ll leave the rest of the story for you to discover.
With gratitude from Denteast
To the veterans we’re fortunate to call our patients, friends, and neighbors, it’s an honor to know you. To the families who kept letters, answered late-night calls, and counted the days until someone came home, you’re in our thoughts today, too.
From Dr. Sunny and all of us at Denteast, to every veteran here in Fort Lauderdale and across the country, thank you for your service.
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Medically reviewed by Dr. Sunny, DMD, founder of Denteast · Last updated November 11, 2026
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