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The 13th Annual Veterans Dinner is November 8. Save the date and RSVP today.
09/22/2026

The 13th Annual Veterans Dinner is November 8. Save the date and RSVP today.

reserve your seat today!
06/08/2026

reserve your seat today!

Questions about veterans benefits or services? Tonight is your chance to hear directly from Commissioner Roberto Santiag...
06/03/2026

Questions about veterans benefits or services? Tonight is your chance to hear directly from Commissioner Roberto Santiago at Memorial Hall. All veterans and families welcome.

4 days left to get your raffles 28 for $20
06/02/2026

4 days left to get your raffles 28 for $20

4 days left to get your raffles ❤️
06/02/2026

4 days left to get your raffles ❤️

Handmade co****le boards $10 each or 3 for $20 Venmo -Crilley521 All proceeds go to Veterans
05/28/2026

Handmade co****le boards $10 each or 3 for $20
Venmo -Crilley521
All proceeds go to Veterans

Handmade folding bar $20 raffle Venmo -Crilley521 All proceeds go to go Veterans
05/28/2026

Handmade folding bar $20 raffle
Venmo -Crilley521
All proceeds go to go Veterans

2 weeks left to get your raffles 28 raffles for $20 Venmo -Crilley521 All proceeds go to go Veterans ❤️
05/28/2026

2 weeks left to get your raffles 28 raffles for $20 Venmo -Crilley521
All proceeds go to go Veterans ❤️

05/27/2026

This is what Memorial Day is all about. 🇺🇸🙏🏻

On Saturday Townie William P. Nearen was honored with a Hero Square. He is one of Charlestown’s young men who died during World War I. He was born in Charlestown in 1898 to William and Cecelia Nearen. Remarkably, he enlisted in the British Army while still a teenager — reportedly at age 16 — before the United States officially entered the war. He served under the alias “James Joseph Powers,” likely because he was underage.

He served with the King’s Liverpool Regiment (sometimes referred to in local accounts as the Irish Regiment). He was killed in action on August 12, 1916 during the Battle of the Somme near Guillemont Farm in France, one of the bloodiest campaigns of the war. His body was never recovered, and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France. Charlestown remembered him deeply after the war. According to local historical accounts, Nearen Row in Charlestown was named in his honor.

What makes his story especially striking is that he was so young and that he volunteered before America entered the conflict. Many Irish-American and British-connected families in Boston felt strong ties to Britain during the early years of the war, and some young men crossed the Atlantic to enlist. Nearen became one of Charlestown’s earliest wartime casualties.
The Boston Globe apparently ran his photograph in September 1916 after news of his death reached home.

It was an honor to witness his Hero Square dedicated with his descendants there too. How lucky we are to live with freedom because of young men like him.

Free breakfast at the Waverly for our Veterans — because fellowship matters
05/26/2026

Free breakfast at the Waverly for our Veterans — because fellowship matters

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