PHOTOS: Fredericksburg Fallen Heroes rode the streets of Fredericksburg to the Our Fallen Heroes Memorial and the Veterans Day program.

PHOTOS: Veterans at ceremony at the Our Fallen Heroes Memorial all received special care packages.

PHOTOS: The Fredericksburg Area Veterans Council’s Veterans Day program at the Our Fallen Heroes Memorial.

VIDEO: Spotsylvania Senator Byrce Reeves at the Our Fallen Heroes Memorial in Fredericksburg on Veterans Day 2019. Senator Reeves talked to the military examples he grew up with.

The Better Business Bureau of Central Virginia with a list of scams often targeted to veterans and their families

PHOTOS: Remembering and honoring veterans in Stafford at the Armed Services Memorial on Courthouse Road.

VIDEO: Speaking at the Armed Services Memorial on Courthouse Road in Stafford, Lt. General Ron Christmas, USMC (Ret.), talked about what the familes of veterans must often endure.

Fredericksburg Veterans Day events feature procession, ceremony and resource fair

PHOTOS: This is what 600 packages headed overseas to troops looks like. Blue Star Mothers of Fredericksburg and volunteers did the packing in about 90 minutes on Saturday morning at the Berea Fire Station in Stafford.

VIDEO: Blue Star Mothers of Fredericksburg and about 200 volunteers assembled 600 care packages ready to be sent to service members overseas. The community donated everything in each box.

A moving moment at the 2019 Davey’s Battle Brothers Memorial Ride. The annual event remembers Sgt David Ruhren of Stafford who died in Iraq in the mess hall bombing in 2004. Participants in the ride this year received a coin from Sgt. Ruhren’s mother.

VIDEO: The start of the 2019 Davey’s Battle Brothers Ride from the Mason-Ruhren Readiness Center in Fredericksburg to Stafford County. Sgt Ruhren died in the 2004 attack on the mess hall in Iraq

VIDEO: Balloon release at 2019 Davey’s Battle Brothers Memorial Ride at the Mason-Ruhran Readiness Center in Fredericksburg. Sgt. David Ruhran died in Iraq in 2004 in the mess hall bombing.

Cristian Benton is serving the country in the Navy. His parents live in Fredericksburg.

A 2017 Mountain View High School graduate and Stafford native is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the guided-missile destroyer, USS Halsey.

Provided by the Navy KIEL, Germany – Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Wilford, a native of Fredericksburg,  is participating in the Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise with 18 other nations. “I am blessed to have the opportunity to is it many ports," said Wilford....

VIDEO: Stafford-based government contractor SimVentions held a ribbon cutting at a new Dahlgren office in King George.

VIDEO: The namesake of the USS Chancellorsville is the Battle of Chancellorsville. There is a local Friends of USS Chancellorsville group. Among the group, local businessman Joe Wilson and Lynn Freshour, a retired Navy chief warrant officer who lives in Spotsylvania .