Never forget: Vestavia Hills hosts its Salute to Veterans program and a benefits fair Nov. 9 at the Civic Center – VestaviaVoice.com

Never forget: Vestavia Hills hosts its Salute to Veterans program and a benefits fair Nov. 9 at the Civic Center  VestaviaVoice.com

Vestavia Hills will honor local veterans with its annual Salute to Veterans program and a veterans benefits and resource fair Nov. 9 at the Vestavia Hills Civic Center. Members of the Vestavia Hills Police Department honor guard at the 2025 Salute to Veterans in Vestavia Hills. You have stood behind them in line at the grocery store. You have sat two pews over from them on Sunday, handed them your keys at the car wash. There is nothing to see. That is the point and always has been — the ones who went and came back and then went quiet about it, who folded the year or the three years or the 20 into a drawer somewhere and got on with the business of being a neighbor.

On Monday, Nov. 9, the city of Vestavia Hills will spend a day trying to thank them. Vestavia Hills Mayor Ashley Curry addresses the crowd at the 2025 Salute to Veterans in Vestavia Hills. Last year, the Salute and the city’s Veterans Benefits and Resource Event together drew more than 400 people. Mayor Ashley Curry and the city are hosting the annual Salute to Veterans at the Vestavia Hills Civic Center, 1090 Montgomery Highway, honoring veterans from all branches of service. The city has been doing some version of this for a decade.