Remember and honor our veterans and military members with greeting cards

Veterans' Day is on Monday, November 11th, this year.

The part of Interstate 195 extending from the Washington Bridge in East Providence, RI to the Seekonk, MA state line was named the East Providence Veterans Memorial Expressway in 1961. The EPVME Re-dedication 2021 committee encourages the public to postal mail notes of appreciation or "thank you for your service" commercial or hand-made cards to our veterans and present military members.

Don't know anyone? Send unsealed cards, with the flap tucked inside, addressed "to any veteran" to your church, or to the Volunteer Office, VA Medical Center, 830 Chalkstone Ave., Providence, RI. 02908. The VA Medical Center welcomes cards (birthday, get well, thinking of you, holiday themes) all year round. Also you can send greetings to the RI Veterans Community, 480 Metacom Ave., Bristol, RI 02809. Your cards are appreciated.

Read more about the contributions of veterans and military members from E. Prov. on the virtual East Providence Military Service Honor Roll at https://sites.google.com/view/epvmer2021.  Short bios and some photos have been added. Please submit new names, update info, and corrections. The website now has tabs to easily view various topics such as visual presentations, containing many Honor Roll names, "Tributes to our EP WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Other, recent, and present veterans and military members", illustrated music for the stay at home EPVMER2021 ceremony, and 2 videos of the live EPVME 60th Anniversary Re-dedication event held in 2021 at Pierce Memorial Stadium.

Have no internet? You can visit the E. Prov. public library to use a computer. While there, view the reference book "Veterans with Individual War Memorials in E. Prov., RI." Notecards of the EPVME bridge memorials are available in December. Contact epvme@hotmail.com.