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Where to Celebrate Memorial Day 2013 in Boston

Find out how to celebrate Memorial Day in Boston.

The city of Boston is hosting several Memorial Day observances throughout Memorial Day weekend.

Events start on Thursday, May 23, with a service on Boston Common. The Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund, a non-profit dedicated to the families of military service personnel from Massachusetts fallen in service to the United States, will host a service at 10:30 a.m. at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the common. 

The event will include the reading of the names of Bay State soldiers killed as a result of current military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan among a flag garden with thousands of miniature American flags honoring the sacrifices of all fallen Massachusetts service men and women.

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On Sunday, May 26, a Memorial Day ceremony will be held at Mount Hope Cemetery (355 Walk Hill St.) in Mattapan, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.  The event will include a short parade from inside the cemetery gate up to the WWI and WWII Monument where the ceremony will be held.

On Memorial Day itself, Monday, May 27, there are several services. 

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In the morning, there will be an 8 a.m. service at the Fogg-Roberts American Legion Post 78 (56 Harvard Ave.) in Hyde Park. From there, participants will march to a mass at Most Precious Blood Parish (43 Maple St.) and then return to the post for the start of a tour of local veteran’s squares. The procession will end up at the Civil War Memorial at Fairview Cemetery for the closing ceremony at 11 a.m. 

In the afternoon, a Memorial Day observance will be held in Brighton from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Evergreen Cemetery (2060 Commonwealth Ave.)

Later on, there will be a free concert featuring the Metropolitan Wind Symphony and the Boston City Singers to honor veterans. The show, called "Remembrance 2013: A Musical Tribute to Our Heros," will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Christopher Coulmbus Park (110 Atlantic Ave.) in the North End. 

For more information on each of these services, call, Arthur Smith of the American Legion at (617) 298-7509, Andy Murphy of the Fogg Post at (617) 364-1636, and the city of Boston’s Cemetery Division at (617) 635-7361.

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