Veterans Day events scheduled across the region
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Veterans Day is Tuesday and veterans will be honored and remembered throughout the region this weekend and next week through parades, ceremonies and other events.
One location where there will conspicuously be no Veterans Day ceremony – at least not an official one – is the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies in Cecil Township. Because of the federal government shutdown, which began Oct. 1, the cemetery is not hosting any official events. Burials are still taking place at the cemetery, which is administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and visitors are still allowed to visit the cemetery any day from dawn to dusk.
However, the Patriot Guard Riders, a mostly motorcycle-riding group that supports veterans, will be at the cemetery starting at 10:30 a.m. They will form a flag line at 11 a.m., and there will be a moment of silence at 11:11 a.m., the time when the armistice went into effect that ended World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. Weather permitting, there will be a flyover from a Huey helicopter from the Vietnam War era.
Meanwhile, the annual Mon Valley Veterans Day Parade is set for Saturday. Rotating between Mon Valley communities, this year it will unfold in three municipalities. The parade lineup will be 10:30 a.m. at the Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department. It will get underway at noon with a brief ceremony and continue along the Railroad and Furlong avenues and then end at the baseball field in Elco. Guests will be received at the Roscoe American Legion hall on Furlong Avenue.
In Uniontown, a parade is planned for Tuesday at 11 a.m. Hosted by American Legion Post 51, the lineup starts at 9 a.m., and at 11:11 a.m., the parade will stop at Storey Square for the playing of “Taps” and a rifle salute.
The bookshop, the Plot Twist Co., in Connellsville, will be having a Veterans Day presentation Tuesday. There will also be a ceremony at the city’s Hill Grove Cemetery at 11 a.m.
Greene County’s 2025 Veterans Day parade will begin with a pre-ceremony at the county courthouse in Waynesburg at 9 a.m. The parade will have Civil War reenactors, elected officials, mascots for the Washington Wild Things and Waynesburg University and more. Patriotic face painting and live entertainment will also be part of the event.