VETERANS
REMEMBERED by DoD
No. 209-P PRESS
ADVISORY November 6, 2000
The following Veterans and
Veterans Day commemorations will be observed in the Washington Metropolitan
area. Separate advisories will be issued for events involving the
Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Monday - Friday, November
6-10
National High School Veterans
Day Poster Art Exhibit (winning national poster featured with state finalists)
- Rotunda Lobby of the Russell Senate Office Building. (202)-273-6000.
Thursday, November 9
Unveiling - New U.S. Postal
Service stamp honoring U.S. veterans - 10 a.m. ceremony, Dept of Veterans
Affairs, Central Office, 810 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., Room
230. (202) 273-6000, (202) 268-6524.
Salute to Veterans program
- Department of Labor, 11 a.m., (202) 693-4700.
Dedication ceremony - National
Japanese-American Memorial, Intersection of New Jersey Ave., Louisiana
Ave. and D Street, Washington, D.C., 1 p.m., Jennifer Devlin, (202) 408-0808.
Choral Evensong - In
Honor of World War II veterans, 6 p.m., Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G
Street, NW, Washington, D.C., (202) 408-0944.
Thursday - Saturday, November
9-11
World War II Veterans Committee
Conference, Hotel Washington, 15th and Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.
(202) 408-0944.
Friday - Sunday, November
10-12 Veterans of the Vietnam War Inc., National Convention, Quality
Hotel, Arlington, Va., (703)
524- 4000, Nancy Verespy
(Nov. 9 -12).
Saturday, November 11
Veterans Day ceremony, Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Wall on the National Mall, 9 a.m. (202) 393-0090.
National Veterans Day Observance,
Arlington National Cemetery:
10:30 a.m., U.S. Navy Band
in Memorial Amphitheater; 11 a.m., Presidential wreath laying at Tomb of
the Unknowns; 11:10 a.m., Veterans Day program in Amphitheater; 12:30 p.m.,
Veteran Service Organization wreath
presentations begin at Tomb
of the Unknowns; 3 p.m., General John J. Pershing gravesite (cemetery section
34) ceremony. (202) 273-5730.
Wreath-laying ceremony,
Fort Belvoir, Va., Pence Gate, 10:45 a.m., (703) 805-2583.
Veterans Day Service, Quantico,
Va. National Cemetery, 11 a.m.; Marine Corps Band, 10:30 a.m. (703) 690-2217.
Memorial Service, To the
800 Japanese-American soldiers who lost their lives during World War II
at site of new National Japanese American Memorial, 11:30 a.m., Triangular
park bordered by
Louisiana Ave., New Jersey
Ave., and D Street NW, Washington, D.C., (202) 414-0786.
Community bell-ringing, Arlington
County, commemorating Veterans Day, noon, Constitution Garden, Wilson Blvd.
& N. George Mason Drive, Arlington, Va., (703) 527-6118.
Groundbreaking, World War
II Veterans Memorial on the National Mall, 1 p.m.; Press credential deadline,
Nov. 8, (703) 696-6780,
http://www.wwiimemorial.com.
Wreath-laying ceremony, U.S.
Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C., 1p.m.
A wreath will be laid at the Lone Sailor Statue, in commemoration of Veterans
Day. The U.S. Navy Ceremonial Band, Ceremonial Guard and Color Guard will
participate in the public
ceremony. 202-737-2300.
Veterans Day program, Mt.
Vernon, Va., George Washington's home. Veterans admitted free.
Ceremony, 2:30 p.m., Jenny
Saxon, 703-799-8607 or 703-780-2000.
Wreath laying ceremony,
Women in Military Service for America Memorial (Arlington National Cemetery),
4 p.m., (703) 533-1155.
Monday, November 13
Wreath laying ceremony,
U.S. Coast Guard honoring Coast Guard Korean War veterans, 12:30 p.m. USCGC
Tampa Memorial on Coast Guard Hill, Arlington National Cemetery, (202)
267-0933.
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