Will you be decorating cemetery monuments today, in observance of Veterans Day? If so, children (or others) may be curious about the exact meaning behind Veterans Day. Specifically, how does Veterans Day differ from Memorial Day? And how is decorating cemetery monuments for Veterans Day different from doing so for Memorial Day? For those who haven't fully examined the history behind the two holidays, they may appear to be carbon copies of each other. Fortunately, we have About's U.S. Military Guide, Rod Powers, to enlighten us as to the difference between the two holidays. Of course, in terms of decorating cemetery (sometimes misspelled as "cemetary") monuments, a big difference (in Northern climes, at least) between Veterans Day and Memorial Day is that the weather for the latter is plant-friendly. Thus the so-called "cemetery logs" that you buy at the florist or nursery for Memorial Day are planted with live plants. Cemetery logs look like window boxes (but they're used primarily for decorating cemetery monuments), and their framework is often made out of rough-cut wood; this framework resembles a log, thus their name. Like window boxes, cemetery logs are filled with soil and planted. But in regions where the weather is too cold on November 11 (Veterans Day) to sustain live plants, cemetery logs are decorated instead with cut evergreens, artificial ornamentation and other elements that can withstand freezing temperatures.