{"id":82880,"date":"2025-11-07T20:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/11\/07\/government-shutdown-prompts-cancellation-of-some-veterans-day-events\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:15:14","slug":"government-shutdown-prompts-cancellation-of-some-veterans-day-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/veterans\/2025\/11\/07\/government-shutdown-prompts-cancellation-of-some-veterans-day-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Government shutdown prompts cancellation of some Veterans Day events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Normally on Veterans Day, volunteers gather at the Riverside National Cemetery in California to place flags alongside more than 300,000 gravesites. But not this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The longest federal government shutdown<\/a> on record is curtailing and outright canceling parades, ceremonies and other events across the U.S. that are normally held to mark Veterans Day. It\u2019s another fallout of the shutdown that has disrupted flights<\/a> and food assistance<\/a>, and was already being squarely felt by military families who are worried<\/a> about their paychecks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In California, organizers of \u201cA Flag for Every Hero\u201d said they couldn\u2019t move forward with the event on Tuesday without access to restrooms, traffic control and other needs for the thousands of participants. Elsewhere, a lack of federal employees and access to military facilities has scrubbed other Veterans Day events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a responsibility to provide them the resources they need, and unfortunately with the shutdown we\u2019re unable to do that,\u201d Laura Herzog, founder and CEO of Honoring Our Fallen, which organizes the Riverside National Cemetery event.<\/p>\n\n\n\t