The parade will end at the Veterans Monument Park located on Pinetree Road adjacent to Esther Bone Memorial Library. and travel east down Southern Boulevard, organizers said in a news release. The parade lineup location will be Country Club Drive beginning at 8 a.m., and the parade will kick off at 10 a.m.
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Veterans and active duty service members are invited to a free Veterans Appreciation Breakfast from 8-10 a.m.A reception will follow in the Alumni Chapter Garden. The UNM Concert Choir will perform A Salute to the Armed Forces. UNM President Garnett Stokes will offer opening remarks, along with a recognition of fallen UNM service members. in the University of New Mexico Alumni Memorial Chapel located on the UNM campus. A Veterans Day celebration and remembrance will be held starting at 10 a.m.For further information and to make a donation, go to A donation of $20 is requested to help maintain the cemetery. Located at 700 Yale SE, the tours will be held from 11 a.m. The Historic Fairview Cemetery organization invites visitors to take a self-guided tour and listen to speakers throughout the cemetery, which includes graves of Rough Riders, Buffalo Soldiers, and veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, both World Wars and Korea.
For further information or tickets, go to /outdoor-recreation. The cost is $20 for base personnel and $12 for veterans. Kirtland Air Force Base Outdoor Recreation will be hosting a three-hour, four-mile hike in the Sandia Mountains to honor veterans.The Capitol Christmas Tree, enroute from California to Washington, D.C., is also expected to briefly be on display at the park. Sponsored by the New Mexico Veterans Memorial Foundation, the event will feature guest speakers, music and entertainment. at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial park at 1100 Louisiana NE. The annual Veterans Day ceremony honoring veterans from all services will be from 10 a.m.military, Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans, both living and dead, who served their country in times of war or peace. While Memorial Day, which is observed in May, honors fallen members of the U.S. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938.” Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I.
Veterans and active duty service members will be honored throughout Albuquerque during a host of Veterans Day events planned for Thursday’s national holiday.Īccording to, “Veterans Day originated as ‘Armistice Day’ on Nov. Santa Fe American Legion 12 is sponsoring the banners, which are hung on light poles along Cerrillos Road through Veterans Day. John Paul Valencia, with the city of Santa Fe’s Traffic Signals Division, hangs banners of people serving, or who have served, in the military as part of the city’s “Hometown Heroes” project.
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