Arlington Veterans Day Ceremony Returns In Person This Year

ARLINGTON, MA — Arlington's Veterans Day parade and ceremony will be held on Thursday Nov. 11 at 10:30 a.m.

Last year, the ceremony was pre-recorded and broadcast on ACMi due to the pandemic. The observance returns in person this year, with a parade that steps off at Adams Street and Massachusetts Avenue and concludes at the central fire station.

The ceremony and placing of wreathes will take place at the fire station. Face masks will be required for those in attendance.

"Please join us in honoring the men and women who proudly served, and continue to serve our country," the town said in a statement.

Originally called Armistice Day, the holiday was created at the end of World War I to recognize those who fought in "the war to end all wars," according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Its origin is tied to the armistice, a temporary end of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany signed in France on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

It became Veterans Day in 1954, shortly after the end of the Korean War and less than a decade after World War II, after various veterans service organizations urged Congress to encompass veterans of all wars in their honor.