Veterans Day events are planned this weekend at the National World War I Museum and Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Mo.
There will be free admission for veterans and active-duty military from Nov. 10-12, and half-price admission for the public Nov. 10-12.
A free public Veterans Day ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, in the museum’s J.C. Nichols Auditorium.
The keynote address at the ceremony will be by Maj. Gen. Maria R. Gervais, deputy commanding general, Combined Arms Center.
Other guests at the ceremony will include U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Mo.; and Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James.
Other highlights of Veterans Day weekend at the Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., will include:
• Nearly 100 new “Walk of Honor” bricks will be dedicated during a ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, in the J.C. Nichols Auditorium.
• A Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” Helicopter display will be on exhibit from Nov. 10 to 12, from the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 243.
• “Hope 22: Dark to Light Photography Exhibit” will be on display from Nov. 11 to Nov. 12. It is raising awareness about veterans’ suicide epidemic. The exhibit features photos of 22 veterans. The name of the project is from a Veterans Affairs report indicating that, on average, 22 veterans are killed by suicide every day.
• “Find Your World War I Connection” – Museum visitors will have access to research stations featuring Fold3.com, Ancestry.com, the Museum’s online collections database, records from the American Battlefield Monuments Commission, and the National Archives to help individuals find their World War I connection, from Nov. 10 to Nov. 12.
• The Hands-on History family-friendly program will invite children of all ages to handle Great War artifacts, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11.
• There will be an opportunity to view special exhibits, “Revolutions! 1917,” “Posters as Munitions, 1917,” “The World Remembers” (closes Nov. 11), and the recently opened “Images of the Great War: America Crosses the Atlantic.”
For more information, visit https://www.theworldwar.org/.