POW/MIA, Gold Star Mothers Recognition Day

HOLMDEL — The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation will hold its annual POW/MIA Recognition and Gold Star Mothers Recognition Day ceremony on Friday at 11 a.m. at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Holmdel.

The third Friday of September is National POW/MIA Recognition Day. Ceremonies are held throughout the country in honor of America’s prisoners of war and missing in action, those returned and those still unaccounted for from our nation’s wars.

The Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and admission is free for all visitors on Sept. 17. The museum is located adjacent to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial off the Garden State Parkway at Exit 116 in Holmdel. The Memorial is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 732-335-0033 or visit www.njvvmf.org.