Mobile Bay Area
Veterans Day Commission
2703 Battleship Pkwy Mobile, AL 36602
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Free & Open to the Public
Presented by South Alabama Veterans Council
2703 Battleship Pkwy Mobile, AL 36602
401 Civic Center Dr. Mobile, AL 36602
USCG Flyover
Mobile Civic Center
Free & Open to the Public
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Invitation & Parade Entry Form
401 Civic Center Dr. Mobile, AL 36602
1630 South Broad St Mobile, AL 36605
This year's Veterans Day Honors Luncheon will recognize and honor the 2022 Patriot of the Year, and the 2022 Mobile Bay Area Veteran of the ...
1630 South Broad St Mobile, AL 36605
2703 Battleship Pkwy Mobile, AL 36602
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
Event features patriot music, presentations by the Veterans Day Essay Contest winners, a key note addre...
2703 Battleship Pkwy Mobile, AL 36602
2703 Battleship Pkwy Mobile, AL 36602
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
The Mobile Pops will present their annual Veterans Day concert in the Medal of Honor Aircraft Pavilion....
2703 Battleship Pkwy Mobile, AL 36602
Lieutenant Colonel Robert F. Barrow,
United States Army, Retired
Director of Army Instruction
Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) Program
at Mobile County Public Schools
Lieutenant General Willie J. Williams,
United States Marine Corp, Retired
The Mobile Bay Area Veterans Commission was organized in 1986 with the purpose of energizing the area’s Veterans Day commemoration. The organizers were Admiral J. Lloyd “Doc” Abbot, USN (Ret.), Admiral Bill Stewart, USCG (Ret.), Captain Hal Pierce, USN (Ret.), and Lieutenant Colonel Vince Schiavoni, USAF (Ret.).
The Mayor of Mobile was invited to be Chairman of the Commission and other distinguished military officers and civilians of the area were also invited to be part of the Commission. The Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce CEO was also invited to be on the board and the Chamber was involved with it from the very beginning. Their plan was to have a Veterans Day parade through downtown Mobile and to have an Honors Luncheon where a Patriot of the Year would be recognized. That recognition was to be the highlight of the Veterans Day observance. Today, the award is presented at the luncheon where a nationally recognized patriot is honored.
Since 1997, a Veteran of the Year is selected and also recognized at the Honors Luncheon. The Veterans Day Observance now includes the Parade of Flags ceremony in the afternoon and a patriotic concert in the evening presented by the Mobile Pops Orchestra, both at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park Medal of Honor Pavilion.
Since 2001, at the Patriot Dinner, on the evening before Veterans Day, the Commission has recognized one or more Mobile Bay Area citizens who have supported our veterans and veteran causes by presenting them with the President’s Award. This year the name of that award was changed to the Captain Hal Pierce Memorial Award.
We're very proud to have been selected as a Veterans Regional Site – one of only 32 sites across the United States!
In his 1954 Veterans Day Proclamation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower called for the formation of a Veterans Day National Committee (VDNC) to oversee national planning and coordination of the Veterans Day observance. Each year, the VDNC designates community Veterans Day events as regional sites.
In 2022, the VDNC approved Mobile and Baldwin Counties as a model for cities across the nation. We are so proud to be recognized.
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