COLUMBUS – The nation observes Veteran’s Day Thursday, a date that commemorates the end of hostilities during World War I in 1918.
Federal, state, county and city offices are closed.
Post offices are also closed and there is no mail delivery or trash collection in the city of Columbus. Recycling and yard waste will be picked up as regularly scheduled.
COTA will waive fares for all veterans and active military with proper identification.
Admission to the National Veterans Memorial and Museum is free to all visitors on Veterans Day
There are a number of other discounts and free offers for veterans:
– True Rest Float Spa, Easton and Powell, is closed to the public but offering veterans free one-hour floats
-Hollywood Casino Columbus: $15 dining credit
-Roosters: a $10 Rooster Buck
-White Castle: free combo meals to all veterans and active duty members of the military
– A free meal and a free car wash at Sheetz stores that have a car wash
-GS Power Sports, 5440 Westerville Rd. is offering veterans a 10% discount on merchandise
OSU helps wounded vets
Wounded military service members from across the country are getting specialized care at the new Military Medicine Program at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine.
A team of advanced reconstructive surgeons, military specialists and rehabilitation experts address complicated combat injuries and uniquely debilitating wounds that can require a lifetime of physical and mental care.
Reconstructive surgeons, peripheral nerve surgeons, microsurgeons, neuroplastic surgeons, and other specialists are using cutting-edge techniques to advance relief of nerve pain through innovative reconstruction and rewiring of nerves, develop a new procedure to improve prosthetics, and improve rehabilitation and post-treatment therapy.
Research grants from the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies are helping to support the program, which is also designed to educate health care providers on how to treat complex combat injuries.