Veterans Day Parade: Virginia Beach, VA (Nov 11, 2025)

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The Veterans Day Parade

Mission POW-MIA is excited to announce that we have partnered with the Hampton Roads Council of Veterans Organizations, and we will be the Co-Marshal of the Virginia Beach Veterans Day Parade 

November 11, 2025! 

The parade will highlight the 50th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. 

The parade will be the finale for those attending our member meeting and we will be honoring our POW-MIAs, their families and our Vietnam Veterans by building a float and marching in parade. Come join the over 100 participant organizations and thousands of patriotic Americans watching along the oceanfront route.  

The 2025 Grand Marshal

Mission POW-MIA and HRCVO is pleased to announce this year's 2025 Grand Marshal for the Veteran's Day parade in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Nov. 11, 2025.  

Mr. Kelly McKeague began service as the  Director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting  Agency (DPAA) on September 5, 2017. He is  responsible for policy, control, and oversight of all  aspects of the Department’s program to account  for our nation’s missing personnel from past  conflicts. He leads DoD’s worldwide enterprise of  research, investigation, recovery, and  identification operations, and supporting  functions, in order to provide the fullest possible  accounting of our missing personnel to their  families and to the nation.  Prior to his appointment, Mr. McKeague owned  and operated a consulting business in Alexandria,  Virginia, providing strategic and operational  consulting to small-capital corporations seeking to  expand business lines and services.  In December 2015, Mr. McKeague culminated a  34-year career in the U.S. Air Force, retiring at the rank of major general. In his last two  assignments, he served as the first Deputy Director of the newly established DPAA, and before that  as Commander, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.  After receiving his commission in 1981 through the Georgia Institute of Technology Air Force  Reserve Officer Training Corps program, Mr. McKeague began his military career as a civil  engineering officer serving in a variety of assignments at base, major command, and Headquarters  U.S. Air Force levels. In 1995, he entered the Maryland Air National Guard and served on active  duty as a civil engineer at Air National Guard Readiness Center followed by legislative liaison  assignments at the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force and the National Guard Bureau. After  transitioning to drilling National Guard status, he was the Director of the Joint Staff, Maryland  National Guard in Baltimore. He subsequently served as Chief of Staff, National Guard Bureau,  then as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Guard Matters.  He earned numerous awards and decorations commensurate with his distinguished military  service. Mr. McKeague received a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in  Industrial Engineering, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

The Moving Wall

The Moving Wall will be coming to Virginia Beach, VA November 8-11, 2025. 

This will be part of our membership meeting, allowing our POW-MIA families to share the stories of their missing loved ones with the public. 

We are coordinating with the Hampton Roads Council of Veterans Organizations and the City of Virginia Beach to make this visit from the half-size replica a reality!!! 

HRCVO's Mission:

To observe patriotic holidays, ceremonies, celebrations, and programs, through coordination with member organizations in the Hampton Roads area.

To support commemorations and memorials honoring veterans who have honorably served the nation.

To promote love of country and the nation’s flag.

To focus on imbuing patriotism in youth in the Hampton Roads area and beyond.

For more information:

 Veteran’s Day Parade – HRCVO