Video Recording of Veterans Day Interfaith Service 2025

A recording from this past week that may be of interest to members.


Interfaith Center

at the Presidio

Unleashing the Power of

Interreligious Cooperation

Veterans Day Interfaith Service

Presidio Chapel, 11/11/2025

~ video recording ~

video

To make a donation please visit:

https://www.interfaithpresidio.org/donate.html

or

scan the QR code below. Thank you!

Upcoming concert and interfaith service dates:

  • December 24: Christmas Eve Mass
  • January 24: Chiara D’Odorico Piano Recital
  • February 14: Baroque Ensemble Concert
  • March 14: Junwen Liang Piano Recital
  • April 25: Celeste Stella Trio
  • May 25: Memorial Day Interfaith Service

Interfaith Center at the Presidio

P.O. Box 29055, San Francisco, CA 94129

(415) 561-3930 (office) * (415) 686-2639 (cell)

www.interfaithpresidio.org * mailto: presidiointerfaith@gmail.com

Let’s Cover Every Veteran’s Grave

An item from the Wreaths Across America organization.


Wreaths Across America

Thank You

National Wreaths Across America Day is just around the corner on December 13, 2025 at 11:00 am (Wreath Placement Immediately Following Ceremony) at San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco. We’re getting closer to our goal, and we need your help to make sure every veteran’s grave at our local cemetery is honored with a wreath.

Why This Matters?

Every December, National Wreaths Across America Day brings our mission—Remember, Honor, and Teach—to life. Volunteers coordinate wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery and more than 5,200 locations across all 50 states, at sea, and abroad, honoring the service and sacrifice of our nation’s veterans. Last year, more than 3 million veteran wreaths were placed nationwide!

At San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco, there are 26,000 veterans to honor. Our goal is to place 26,000 wreaths this year, and we’re currently 2% of the way there.

How You Can Help?

We’re so close to reaching our goal at San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco, and your support can make all the difference! Each wreath you sponsor brings us one step closer to honoring every veteran at this location.

Sponsor wreaths today by visiting CAPNSF – San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco and clicking the Red Sponsor button. Every contribution helps us get closer to placing 26,000 wreaths and ensuring no veteran is forgotten.

Thank you for helping us honor every American hero—your support makes a meaningful difference!

Sincerely,

Chris Hughes
CAPNSF – San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio of San Francisco

Where Canada remembers: The National War Memorial hosts its 85th annual ceremony in tribute to military sacrifice

An item from the Legion Magazine that may be of interest to members.


Weekly Feature
Weekly Feature

An RCMP Black Hawk helicopter flies over the National War Memorial as the formal 2025 National Remembrance Day Ceremony concludes. [Aaron Kylie/LM]

Where Canada remembers: The National War Memorial hosts its 85th annual ceremony in tribute to military sacrifice

STORY BY AARON KYLIE

Beyond the grounds of Parliament Hill, there may be no other location as synonymous with Canadians gathering en masse as the National War Memorial. Since 1940, thousands have flocked annually to the country’s cenotaph, known as “The Response,” to pay their respects to those who have served, and continue to serve, Canada in uniform.

Coincidentally, design proposals for the monument, with a budget set at $100,000, were first sought 100 years ago in February 1925. The tribute was to evoke “the spirit of heroism, the spirit of self-sacrifice, the spirit of all that is noble and great that was exemplified in the lives of those sacrificed in the Great War, and the services rendered by the men and women who went overseas.”

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The Briefing
The Briefing

The 29th (Canadian) Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla conducts an exercise in May 1944. Weeks later, it would participate with the British during the invasion at Sword Beach on D-Day [LAC/3204508]

The Canadians at Sword Beach: Part 1

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

We all know the story, or at least a version of it.

The success of D-Day on June 6, 1944, was the result of a combined arms operation spearheaded by U.S., British and Canadian forces. These three Allied nations, the oft-cited tale goes, were assigned five heavily defended sectors between them.

The British were tasked with landing at the beaches codenamed Sword and Gold; the Americans took on the mantle of assaulting Utah and Omaha beaches; and the Canadians squared off against German resistance on Juno Beach.

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