ITEM PHOTO BY JIM WILSON
The City of Lynn World War Memorial, located on a hill looking over the veterans graves at Pine Grove Cemetary. The inscription on the plaque is ‘To the memory of all who served our country in the world war.’ The memorial was erected by the City of Lynn in 1937.
Lynn and neighboring communities salute veterans today with a variety of ceremonies and commemorations.
The Lynn Veterans Day breakfast will be held in City Hall’s foyer from 9:30-10:30 a.m. followed by an 11 a.m. ceremony in Veterans Memorial Auditorium in City Hall. The morning will feature music, a drill team display by the English High School Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps and remarks by Afghan war veteran Tiffany Leaver.
U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran, helps lead a Veterans Day town hall discussion in Marblehead’s Abbot Hall at 11 a.m. In Peabody, the annual City Hall Veterans Day breakfast begins at 8:30 a.m.
Lynnfield salutes veterans on Lynnfield Common at 11 a.m. with a roughly 30 minute-long ceremony.
Swampscott’s annual Veterans Day ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. sharp at Thomson Circle on Monument Avenue. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be moved into the nearby First Church Congregational fellowship hall. Participants are invited to gather following the ceremony at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post on Pine Street.
Swampscott Unites, Respects, Embraces, a local diversity organization, shows “The White Helmets,” a film about volunteers who help citizens affected by war, in First Church on Friday at 6 p.m.
The Nahant Veterans Association and American Legion Post 215 salute town World War I veteran Mortimer Giberson Robbins during a 6 p.m. dinner at the Nahant Life Saving Station, 96 Nahant Road.