November 11th is not only Veterans Day, but it is also the commemoration of Martin of Tours. Martin of Tours was the guy that Martin Luther was named after. Martin Luther was born on November 10th and baptized the next day on the 11th (Martin of Tours Day). Because Martin was baptized on this day and it was common for children in that time to be named after the saint celebrated that day, Martin was named Martin. 
Martin of Tours lived in the later 300’s AD. He was a Roman soldier and was stationed in Gaul (modern day France). As he approached a city, he noticed a beggar who did not have enough clothes to keep warm. Impulsively, Martin is said to have cut off half of his cloak which he gave to the beggar. Later that night, Martin dreamed that the beggar appeared to him in a dream, but rather than being just a beggar, it was Jesus – just like in Matthew 25 when Jesus said “when you did it for the least of these.”
I think that fits in our celebration of veterans. Veterans are people who gave their service “for the least of these,” when they joined the Armed Services. We too, as Christians, can emulate what it means for us to give as if other people were “little Christs” for us to serve.
There are moments throughout Luther’s preaching and writing career that seem to have picked up this sense of serving Christ by serving others. From his quote “God doesn’t need your good works, but your neighbor does,” to his chiding Christmas service in which he preached “Do not say that you would have not been like the innkeeper, that you would have let the holy family in, for you are not doing that with the poor who are Christ among you,” Luther seems to have understood the lesson of Veterans Day and Martin of Tours Day – that we serve Christ when we serve others, but also that our service is never as great as what happened when He served us on the Cross.