Veterans in a pre-game flag ceremony Sunday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough.

On Monday, a man paused between rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

Michele Mathews sat on the shoulders of Kevin Palmer of Goshen, Conn., to make a rubbing of where his uncle’s name is inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Stephan Ross (in striped uniform) met with family members of late soldier Steve Sattler (seen in framed picture), who gave Ross food and a small American Flag during the liberation of Dachau.

President Obama spoke during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery Amphitheater on Sunday.