What better time for Americans to come together on a bipartisan issue than after the nation’s most bitterly contested election in generations.

There is not much Americans seem to agree on today, but support of our military veterans is an issue that crosses party allegiances and brings odd political bedfellows to the negotiating table.

Veterans have been used prominently in both the Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns.

Trump went beyond just typical Republican rhetoric and called for the termination of "corrupt and incompetent Veterans Affairs executives," and vowed to use the presidency to discipline those who violated the trust of former servicemen and women in need of physical or mental care.

For Democrats, one of the most memorable moments during an otherwise losing campaign was the emergence of Khizr Khan, a Virginia Muslim and Gold Star father whose son, U.S. Capt. Humayun S.M. Khan, was killed in 2004 during a suicide car bombing in Iraq. The subsequent back-and-forth between the Khan family and the Trump campaign put on full display what it means to be an American.

Regardless of Tuesday’s outcome, there is no reason to think we should let the election overshadow the debt of gratitude Granite Staters owe to our veterans.

Let us all now see it as our patriotic duty to stand together – not just with those who cast a ballot for our candidates, but with those who fought so we could enter a polling site in the first place.

Maybe it was kismet that Veterans Day would fall just three days after the ugliness of the 2016 presidential election and the nastiness it brought out in the American people.

It gives all Americans the opportunity to contemplate what’s truly important and remember those who sacrificed more than a chance at the White House.