Malden Plans Veterans Day Memorial Service

MALDEN, MA — Malden will honor veterans on Friday with a planned Veterans Day memorial service at the American Legion Post 69, the city announced late last month.

The event is set for 11 a.m. on Friday at the Legion Post facility at 75 Meridian Street in Malden. City officials are running the event jointly with the Legion Post.

Veterans Day takes place on Nov. 11 annually on the anniversary of the armistice that ended hostilities in World War I in 1918. Woodrow Wilson marked the first anniversary of the armistice as “Armistice Day” in 1919. Congress then helped codify the day as a legal holiday in 1938 before changing the “Armistice Day” name to “Veterans Day” in 1954 after World War II and the Korean War, as noted in a history on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs website.

Malden previously ran an annual Veterans Day parade, bringing the tradition back last year after it was put on hold in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The city is not planning a parade this year.

Outside fixed Veterans Day programming, the city does maintain a map of veterans points of interest. Available online, the tool pinpoints dozens of monuments, memorials and markings related to veterans throughout Malden.