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Today is Veterans Day. It’s a great opportunity to show the veterans and active-duty military personnel in your life how much you appreciate them and how thankful you are for their service. One way you can do this is by treating them to a meal. If you’re looking for a free offer on Veterans Day, however, only some Subway locations are offering them this time around. There is not a nationwide offer today. Read on to find out more for November 11, 2019.
Some Subways Are Offering Deals for Veterans & Active Military, But Only at Some Local Stores
In the past, select Subways around the country offered free six-inch sandwiches to local veterans. Unfortunately, that is not the case this year. Subways don’t have a nationwide veterans deal in 2019, although Military.com and other sites had it listed as such earlier today. (Heavy’s story initially said select Subways were offering free sandwiches, but Ruder Finn spoke with Heavy and clarified that this is not correct nationwide.)
However, some local Subways are indeed offering specials, just depending on the local manager. Heavy contacted a local Subway in Austin, Texas, for example. They are offering a free six-inch sandwich meal with chips and a drink for any veterans or active duty with a military ID. But this is not an offer available at every location.
So call your local Subway to see if they are offering a deal today. You can find your local Subway here.
If you’re looking for free offers today for Veterans Day, consider Applebee’s, Texas Roadhouse, select IHOPs, or free coffee at select Starbucks.
Subway also has other specials and limited-time menu items right now too. For example, you can order sandwiches made with ultimate cheesy garlic bread, according to their website. And Subway’s offering a New Ultimate Steak sandwich right now for a limited time.
Subway is also offering sliders starting at $1.89 each.
And if you’re a Subway MyWay Rewards Member, you’ll get a chance to win a trip to Super Bowl LIV when you make a Visa purchase with your Subway MyWay Rewards account.
Can’t see your veteran today? Consider gifting them a cookie. It will be delivered as a Subway eGift Card.
The History of Veterans Day
Veterans Day is a holiday that celebrates the anniversary of the end of World War I (on November 11). The holiday was originally called Armistice Day, but it was replaced by Veterans Day in 1954. Today, it honors all veterans who have served in the U.S. military.
On November 11, 1918, World War I was officially ended. On November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued the following message about Armistice Day:
A year ago today our enemies laid down their arms in accordance with an armistice which rendered them impotent to renew hostilities, and gave to the world an assured opportunity to reconstruct its shattered order and to work out in peace a new and juster set of international relations. The soldiers and people of the European Allies had fought and endured for more than four years to uphold the barrier of civilization against the aggressions of armed force. We ourselves had been in the conflict something more than a year and a half.
With splendid forgetfulness of mere personal concerns, we remodeled our industries, concentrated our financial resources, increased our agricultural output, and assembled a great army, so that at the last our power was a decisive factor in the victory. We were able to bring the vast resources, material and moral, of a great and free people to the assistance of our associates in Europe who had suffered and sacrificed without limit in the cause for which we fought.
Out of this victory there arose new possibilities of political freedom and economic concert. The war showed us the strength of great nations acting together for high purposes, and the victory of arms foretells the enduring conquests which can be made in peace when nations act justly and in furtherance of the common interests of men.
To us in America the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service, and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations.”
In 1938, November 11 was officially dedicated as Armistice Day to celebrate World War I veterans, Military.com shared. But then in 1954, after World War II and the Korean War, Congress changed the holiday to Veterans Day to honor all veterans of wars, including World War I. Veterans Day is still celebrated on November 11, but if it falls on a weekend then it is officially observed either the Friday before (if it’s on a Saturday) or the Monday after (if it’s on a Sunday), allowing federal employees to still have a day off.
Correction: Heavy’s story initially said select Subways were offering free sandwiches nationwide, but Ruder Finn spoke with Heavy and clarified that this is not correct on a nationwide level. Contact your local Subway to see if they are offering any deals today.