Rising on Wikipedia ahead of 11 November: readers of the English article on Veterans Day went from 2,655 in the week of 20 September to 4,860 in the week to 20 October, and Remembrance Day from 2,931 to 5,115.
A tribute to someone who served, built only from what your family knows
Type what the family knows, one fact per line. The page sorts each fact into on record, family story or not known. One run writes a short tribute for Remembrance Day or Veterans Day that states only what is on record, tells the stories as stories, and turns every gap into a question to ask before you share it.
1 Who they are
The tribute opens with who they are to you and their name, and uses only the facts in step 2.
2 What the family knows
End a line with ", record", ", story" or ", unknown" to move it to that pile yourself.
3 The service file
The piles are the page's reading of your wording, not a check of any record: a line that names papers, a photo, a medal or a letter counts as on record; one that says who told it, or hedges, is a family story; a question is not known.
4 Write the tribute
One run writes a title, a line for the plaque, the tribute at the length you chose, a note on how each fact was used, the questions to ask and what to check before you share it. It adds no rank, unit, place, date, medal or memory you did not type.
The verdict follows a fixed rule, checked in order: check before sharing if nothing is on record; mostly family stories if the stories outnumber the facts on record; on record otherwise.
5 Kept tributes
About 11 November
11 November marks the armistice that ended the fighting of the First World War in 1918. Many Commonwealth countries keep it as Remembrance Day (Armistice Day in some places), remembering members of the armed forces who died in service, often with a silence at 11 a.m. In the United States it is Veterans Day, honouring all who have served. This page writes for either, and for someone still living. It does not check any record; the piles are only as good as the facts you type.