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11 November · at the record's strength
What the record carries: Mishawaka's Veterans Day has no parade in the documented record — the parade is Memorial Day's — and its organizational shape is the concert and the meal rather than the march. In the Tribune's listing for 11 November 2026, the Michiana Concert Band plays its Veterans Day concert at 11:00 a.m. at VFW Post 360, 1307 East Jefferson Boulevard, with veterans and their families invited to a light meal afterward — the post home as the town's Veterans Day room, the band (whose own record stands in the Arts record) as its program. The same day's record carries the town's commercial and institutional courtesies — the hospital system's program at Saint Joseph Mishawaka Medical Center among them — which belong to those institutions' records, not the posts'.
The day's place in the posts' year: Veterans Day is, in this record, the Legion post's day in a way Memorial Day is not: the post's defining modern act, the Balmer rededication, was deliberately performed on Veterans Day 2007, "a great day to honor him with Veterans Day and all," as a speaker at the ceremony said — the day for the living and the lately lost, chosen over the day of decoration. No standing Mishawaka Veterans Day ceremony by the posts, of the kind the county's other cities document, stands in the record reached beyond the concert and the rededication; the absence is printed as found, and the Enterprise and Tribune runs are its settling sources as for the rest.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune, Veterans Day events listing, 3 November 2026 — the Michiana Concert Band concert and meal at VFW Post 360.
- South Bend Tribune, "Legion renames post for Balmer" (2007) — the rededication's Veterans Day setting, as carried in that entry above.