Annual Veterans Day Observance at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Veterans’ World War I Monument by the main gate of the Cambridge Cemetery, 76 Coolidge Ave.

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.

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. …

I have recently come back from a tour in Iraq. I was very moved by the page listing the names of soldiers killed in Iraq (Nov. 2,2005). But I was also bothered by the fact that it is much like the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Washington, D.C., and …

    Majorie Decker, vice mayor of Cambridge and an opponent of the Iraq war, speaks at the Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 12, 2005, at Cambridge Cemetery. (Photo: Lawrence E. Miller) Men drinking Saturday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Huron Avenu …

Laurence D. Fitzmaurice, president and chief executive of the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, gives his Veterans Day keynote address Nov. 12, 2005, at Cambridge Cemetery, watched by Burman Barnett, vice president of the Cambridge veterans or …

The Cambridge Veterans Organization, in conjunction with the city’s Department of Veterans Services, will hold its annual Veterans Day observance at 11 a.m. on Friday. The event will be held at the World War I Veterans’ Monument, by the main gate of Ca …