Servicemembers & Veterans Appreciation gets week of events, scheduled Nov. 6-11
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Cambridge will hold its first Servicemembers and Veterans Appreciation Week from Nov. 6-11. Activities on select days of the week will include health checkups, social gatherings and a Veterans Day Observance.
Veterans’ Day observances start at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 by gate at Cambridge Cemetery
Friday, November 1, 2013
Veterans Day Observances will take place at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Veterans’ World War I Monument next to the main gate of Cambridge Cemetery, 76 Coolidge Ave.
Conflicted holiday of things past and present
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
It was on the 11th hour of the 11th day of November 1918 that President Woodrow Wilson inaugurated the celebration we know as Veterans Day. It was called Armistice Day and intended as a paean to the heroic deeds of the soldiers who died in World War I. …