Telegraph file photo Members of the Nashua High School Junior ROTC march in Nashua's 2019 Memorial Day parade. This year, both the Memorial Day and Veterans Day parades were canceled due to the pandemic.

NASHUA – The city’s Veterans Day parade, like many public events, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wreath-laying ceremonies, however, will take place as scheduled, according to Barney Barbera, chairman of the Mayor’s Veterans Council.

Taking part will be representatives of James E. Coffey Post 3, American Legion; Disabled American Veterans Post 7; and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 483.

Participants and spectators will meet at 8 a.m. on Veterans Day at City Hall, where ceremonies will take place at the World War I and Korean War monuments on City Hall Plaza.

Next will be a ceremony at Deschenes Oval in Railroad Square, followed by the ceremony at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument atop Library Hill.

A service at the Vietnam War memorial at Memorial Park on Ledge Street will wrap up the morning’s events.

According to Barbera, members of Nashua Elks Lodge 720 will be placing flags on veterans graves at several Nashua and Hudson cemeteries on Saturday, Nov. 7, beginning at 9 a.m.

Members are scheduled to remove the flags around 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14.

Nashua cemeteries include the Old South Cemetery on Daniel Webster Highway; Evergreen Cemetery at Main Street and East Dunstable Road; St. Francis Cemetery, 32 Pine Hill Ave.; Pinewood Cemetery, 98 Pine Hill Road; St. Stanislaus Cemetery, 61 Pine Hill Road; the old St. Louis Cemetery, next to Congregation Beth Abraham Cemetery, 428 West Hollis St.; new St. Louis Cemetery, 752 West Hollis St.; Edgewood Cemetery, 107 Amherst St.; Woodlawn Cemetery, 101 Kinsley St.; Nashua Cemetery, 56 Lowell St.; Hillside Cemetery, 310 Amherst St.; and Gilson Road Cemetery, Gilson Road.

In Hudson, flags will be placed at the Holy Cross Cemetery, Ledge Road, and St. Patrick Cemetery, Derry Road.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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