Veterans Day Events
Veterans organizations in East Hampton and Southampton Towns are planning parades, ceremonies, and workshops in recognition of Veterans Day on Monday.
A short parade will be held on Sunday at 1:45 p.m. in Southampton, proceeding from the Presbyterian Church down Job's Lane to the Veterans Memorial Hall on Pond Lane. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Korean War Veterans, and Vietnam Veterans, their auxiliaries, and the Southampton High School band will take part.
The parade will be followed by a memorial service at Memorial Hall sponsored by the Combined Veterans Organization. William A. Frank enbach will be the master of ceremonies, and the Van Arts Dalen Family will sing.
In East Hampton, the Everit Albert Herter Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will host a ceremony to honor veterans on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the organization's headquarters on Montauk Highway in EastHampton. Hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar will be available.
Legal planning and rights will be the topic at a seminar in honor of Veterans Day at the V.F.W. from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday.
Commander Edward Moritz, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), a veterans advocate who is an estates attorney and associate counsel with the firm of Nancy K. Munson in Huntington, and Felicia Pasculli, an elder-law attorney and veterans advocate, will discuss health care, compensation, training, mortgages, insurance, and burial issues for veterans and their families. They also will discuss legal planning, including wills, powers of attorney, health care proxies, living wills, trusts and estate taxes, and Medicare and Medicaid.
The American Legion Hall in Amagansett will be the site of another ceremony followed by lunch on Monday. The 11 a.m. ceremony, for members only, will commemorate both the end of World War I and the birth of the American Legion in France soon after. A cocktail hour and chili lunch will follow.
In Sag Harbor, the Chelberg-Battle Post of the American Legion will hold its "11 o'clock ritual," in which bells are rung and Taps played to commemorate the signing of the armistice, on Saturday night following its annual dinner-dance.
The event begins at the Legion Hall, on Bay Street, at 7 p.m. with a social hour. Big Band East will play and prime rib or stuffed chicken breast dinners will be served. Tickets may be purchased in advance for $20 a person or at the door for $25.
On Monday, members of the Legion, the V.F.W, and other veterans, along with Boy and Girl Scouts, will meet at the Civil War Monument on Main Street in Sag Harbor at 10:30 a.m. for a parade to Legion Hall.
There, North Haven Mayor Robert Ratcliffe will speak. The speech will be followed by a rifle salute, the playing of Taps, and a prayer. Refreshments will be served in the hall following the ceremony.
A flag-raising ceremony and dedication also will take place at noon on Monday at the community flagpole in East Quogue. Quinn's Way, a brick walk around the pole will be named for Tom Quinn, a Vietnam veteran who lost both legs in the war. A free barbecue and cash bar will be available at the New Moon Cafe following the dedication.