Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone and Director of Veterans’ Services Frank Senesi invite all interested community members to attend the annual Veteran’s Day ceremonies on Friday, November 11 at 10 a.m.  The City of Somerville will be holding the annual ceremonies with the Allied Veterans’ Council at the VFW George Dilboy Post #529, located at 371 Summer Street in Davis Square.  The event will include an honor guard, and brief speeches by local elected officials.  For more information, please contact the Veteran’s Services Department at 617-625-6600 x4700.

In addition, the City’s Historic Preservation Commission and Historic Somerville will host a Veteran’s Day Ceremony at the Somerville Museum and Milk Row Cemetery.  The focus for this year’s event will be Somerville’s Civil War years: “Somerville 1861:  Camp Cameron.”  The event will honor Camp Cameron and the thousands of Union recruits who passed through the camp on their way to war. The Somerville Museum will host a 2 p.m. lecture by Dan Sullivan, blogger of campcameron.blogspot.com, followed by a march to the Milk Row Cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremoiny and a brief speaking agenda.  Tickets for the lecture are $5.00 for nonmembers (Museum members attend for free.).  For more information, contact the Historic Preservation Commission at 617-625-6600 ext. 2532 or Historic Somerville at admin@historicsomerville.org, or 617-625-5809.