Events & Observances

Upcoming Calendar

October

Oct 10: Flag Retirement Day @ VFW Post 857
Oct 11: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Oct 13: Columbus Day/U.S. Navy Birthday
Oct 18: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Oct 25: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Oct 26: Dine to Donate @ Texas Roadhouse 3-10PM
Oct 27: Navy Day
Oct 31: Halloween

November - National Veterans & Military Family Month/Warrior Care Month/National Family Caregivers Month

Nov 1: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Nov 2: Daylight Savings Time Ends
Nov 7: Veterans Day Parade - Parnell Ave to Memorial Coliseum
Nov 8: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Nov 11: Veterans Day/Armistice Remembrance Day
Nov 22: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Nov 27: Thanksgiving Day
Nov 29: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel

December

Dec 1: Civil Air Patrol (USAF Auxillary) Birthday
Dec 2: Giving Tuesday
Dec 6: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Dec 7: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec 13: U.S. National Guard Birthday/Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Dec 19: National Wreaths Across America
Dec 20: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Dec 25: Christmas Day
Dec 26: Kwanza Begins
Dec 27: Chapel Service 10:00AM @ Sterling Chapel
Dec 31: New Years Eve

January

New Years Day/Kwanza Begins

* BOLD are events AT Veterans National Shrine and Museum

Announcements/Forms

**Please note we have temporarily suspended donations of artifacts and items. We will announce new acceptance guidelines in the future.

-Click to have a chance at one of two Patriotic Guitars in our fundraiser. Only $20 per entry! We only have 200 tickets! Tickets are only available at our 2122 O’Day Rd, Fort Wayne, IN 46818 location and once they’re gone…they’re gone.

Ongoing Events

Monthly- Veterans Support Group - Mondays, 5 pm to 6:30 pm

Spouse Support Group-
First Saturday of Each Month,11 am

Volunteers Work Day-
Wednesday each week 10 am

Museum Gift Shop

Visit our Museum Gift Shop to get your commemorative America's 250th Birthday shirts and coins!

250th Collection

To help fundraise for our Agent Orange Memorial Monument, we are selling this Agent Orange patch! Only $10 and available in our Museum Gift Shop! To donate additionally to the monument campaign, click HERE.