LANSING — In honor of the upcoming Veterans Day holiday, The Michigan Secretary of State office reminds veterans that Michigan offers more than two dozen veteran license plates recognizing their service protecting the freedoms Americans hold dear.

Each of the designations is available to qualifying veterans either on the white standard Pure Michigan license plate or the colorful Spectacular Peninsulas plate. Veterans can order their plate at any Secretary of State office or through the mail by downloading an application at Michigan.gov/sos and mailing it in. They can also see what their plate will look like before they order it by using the Plate It Your Way service at ExpressSOS.com.

Most plates are also available to the spouses of veterans for their vehicles. One plate, the Gold Star Family Plate, is available to immediate family members of military personnel who lost their lives in combat.

Six of the military service plates also are offered as motorcycle plates: Air Force Veteran, Army Veteran, Coast Guard Veteran, Marine Corps Veteran, National Guard Veteran and Navy Veteran.

Three plates feature logos of medals and are available to men and women who earned the Afghanistan Campaign Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal or the Vietnam Service Medal and their spouses.

Michigan also offers a Veterans Memorial fundraising plate, which has a military dog tags logo and the words “Lest We Forget” at the bottom of the plate. The plate benefits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial monument in Lansing.

Offering more than two dozen military license plates that are available for veterans and their spouses, allowing them to display their service with pride.

Veteran/military service plates are available with the following designations (Most plates are also available to the spouses of veterans for their vehicles except where indicated by an asterisk):

• Afghanistan Conflict Veteran

• Afghanistan Campaign Medal Veteran

• Air Force Veteran*

• Army Veteran*

• Coast Guard Veteran*

• Combat Wounded Veteran (Purple Heart)*

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Disabled Veteran

• Dominican Republic Veteran

• Ex-Prisoner of War (Ex-POW)

• Gold Star Family Plate (family members)

• Grenada Conflict Veteran

• Iraq Conflict Veteran

• Iraq Campaign Medal Veteran

• Korean War Veteran

• Laos Conflict Veteran

• Lebanon Conflict Veteran

• Marine Corps Veteran*

• Military Reserve Member*

• National Guard Member*

• Navy Veteran*

• Panama Conflict Veteran

• Pearl Harbor Survivor*

• Persian Gulf (Desert Storm) Veteran

• Somalia Conflict Veteran

• Vietnam War Veteran

• Vietnam Service Medal Veteran

• World War II Veteran