Our Aussie and Kiwi cousins are the foundation the US Veteran Affairs stated project "Veterans Pride".. they modeled it from our cousins from down under.. its a very good that we can see a program working and apply it to our veterans too...
And so they should, minor comment to add, its not a "program" per say down here, its been around long enough to call it a tradition, and more for the fact that, ANZAC Day, although a terrible campaign in futility, became a day of national identification and pride, not forgetting that NZ only became a dominion in ah...1907ish (I believe), we still had no identity of our own at that stage, as everything was still modelled on the UK.

And from the limited contact that i have had with Americans in general (funnily enough, canucks can be found in their hundreds here), their patriotism and pride is quite a redeeming and admirable part of their character, so I can imagine they will get behind this hopefully 100%.

Regards

Phil C