Brockton Council on Aging

Veterans Day Observance

The City of Brockton is home to 100,000 people of all different cultures and experiences and our City of Champions has many organizations focused on meeting and sharing these diversities.  One of these is the “Brockton Council on Aging” a place where diversity grows into similarities.  Recently the COA took the opportunity to open their doors to the seniors of our community and all our veterans on a day of remembrance and recognition.

The City of Brockton

Veterans Day Parade

Originally Armistice Day noting the ceasing of hostilities of World War One, and although it may have different names globally, Veterans Day is a worldwide day of remembrance.  In this segment of One North Main we show the City's annual Veterans Day Parade and Legion Parkway Observances, just a sample of the many ways the City of Brockton remembers and honors its veterans.

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"Veterans History Project"

BCA is a volunteer driven organization whose mission it is to train the community to make TV for the community by the community.  But sometimes we at BCA have the chance to bridge the volunteer and the staff into a combined productions and one of these is the Veterans History Project.  Our volunteer host Bob McCormack, interns, and staff working together to preserve and record the oral histories of not only veterans, but those that supported their veterans home front and war efforts.  An initiative of the Library of Congress, the Veterans History Project is a national effort and this is how BCA is doing its part.

Veterans Experiences, from the "Veterans History Project"

BCA's Veterans History Project  is viewable not only in Brockton, but Quincy, Bridgewater, and soon Abington.  BCA is the host location to do these interviews, but it does not matter where you live to be interviewed.  The Veterans History Project is a program where we interview veterans, war industry workers, people on the home front, USO volunteers and more.  To date we have recorded 27 interviews and we present you a sampling of some of their personal experiences.