Free, Public Events

• The Moving Wall, a half-size traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., on display 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Nov. 7-11, at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, 1000 19th St., in Hall D. 
• Military vehicles, displays and more at the Virginia Beach Convention Center
• Annual Tidewater Veterans Day Parade, 9 a.m., Nov. 11, starting at 16th Street and Atlantic Avenue in Virginia Beach
• Annual Tidewater Veterans Day Ceremony, 11 a.m., Nov. 11, at the Tidewater Veterans Memorial, across from the Virginia Beach Convention Center, 1000 19th St.
• MIA Ceremony, 10 a.m.-noon, Nov. 9, Virginia Beach Convention Center, Hall D. Reading of the names of 1,566 current MIAs from Vietnam, wreath-laying and the playing of Taps.

The events are co-sponsored by the City of Virginia Beach Mayor’s Committee for Veterans (MCV), the Hampton Roads Council of Veterans Organizations (HRCVO) and Mission: POW-MIA, a nonprofit organization based in Chesapeake that works to achieve the fullest possible accounting of missing and unaccounted-for Americans from past conflicts.

Virginia Beach’s Veterans Week events have been designated as a national commemoration event by the United States of America Vietnam War Commemoration, a national program authorized by Congress to mark the 50th anniversary of the war. The commemoration began on Memorial Day 2012 and concludes on Veterans Day 2025. The program's primary goal is to thank and honor Vietnam veterans and their families for their service and sacrifice.

Details of these events and more will be added below as they are confirmed.