President Barack Obama used his last Veterans Day speech to urge Americans to learn from the example of veterans as a divided nation seeks to "forge unity" after the bitter 2016 campaign. Veterans Day often comes on the heels of hard-fought campaigns that "lay bare disagreements across our nation.But the American instinct has never been to find isolation in opposite corners, It is to find strength in our common creed, to forge unity from our great diversity, to maintain that strength and unity even when it is hard. Now that the election is over, "as we search for ways to come together, to reconnect with one another and with the principles that are more enduring than transitory politics, some of our best examples are the men and women we salute on Veterans Day." NBC News