Woburn Veterans Day 2022: Ceremony, Parade, Road Closure Info

WOBURN, MA — Woburn community members will gather on Friday for a new year of Veterans Day observances in the downtown area, city officials announced this week.

City offices will additionally be closed and trash collection will be delayed by one day due to the holiday.

The Veterans Day program will kick off at 10:15 a.m. when the day's parade is scheduled to begin to form at the intersection of Main Street and Eaton Avenue. There will be a call to order at 10:30 a.m. before a march/parade to the Woburn Common begins at 10:40 a.m., as noted in the city's announcement.

Woburn Police on Wednesday detailed expected road closures to make way for the Veterans Day parade, with brief closures scheduled at intersections along the parade route.

See detailed road closure information here.

Woburn's Veterans Day ceremony will then start on the Woburn Common at 11 a.m.

Veterans Day takes place on Nov. 11 annually on the anniversary of the armistice that ended hostilities in World War I in 1918. President 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.