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Thanks to our veterans for their sacrifices
By the Daily News
Saturday’s Veterans Day parade was a wonderful display of pride and respect.
But we shouldn’t let that be the only time we recognize the sacrifices that military servicemen and servicewomen have made for their country.
Friday is actually Veterans Day, where the cessation of fighting between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect in the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
For that reason, many Veterans Day remembrances are at 11 a.m. and there are plenty of opportunities Friday for you to participate.
Bowling Green Technical College will have a ceremony at the college’s main campus on Loop Drive at 11 a.m., and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1298 will have a program and luncheon at 11 a.m.
Western Kentucky University will honor 1st Lt. Eric D. Yates, a 2008 graduate who was killed last year in Afghanistan. He will be featured on a new granite panel that will be unveiled at the Guthrie Tower on WKU’s campus.
The tower and granite panels are a fitting tribute to area veterans, just as the Veterans’ Courtyard at the Warren County Courthouse is. The courtyard was the setting for Saturday’s flag-raising ceremony and is something Warren Countians should be proud to have.
Members of the Yates family and 85 members of his Army unit from Fort Campbell will attend the Veterans Day ceremony, which begins at 11 a.m. at the Guthrie Tower.
Members of Yates’ unit and family and others from the campus and community will participate in the Hilltopper Battalion ROTC program’s 5K run at 6:30 a.m. Friday. Proceeds from the run will benefit the 1st Lt. Eric Yates Memorial Scholarship.
Yates’ name will be among the 6,000 read during the National Roll Call on college campuses. WKU’s naming of those military personnel killed over the past 10 years will begin at 9 a.m. in WKU’s Mass Media and Technology Hall.
U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Hopkinsville, reminds us of the importance of veterans:
“The veterans of our armed forces answered a call to something greater than themselves through their selfless service and sacrifice. Our veterans stepped forward for their communities and their nation to ensure that the promise of freedom the United States inspires stands strong. America’s example to the world of a free society that determines its own destiny remains unbroken thanks to our veterans who have defended our freedom and our way of life.”
By the Daily News
Saturday’s Veterans Day parade was a wonderful display of pride and respect.
But we shouldn’t let that be the only time we recognize the sacrifices that military servicemen and servicewomen have made for their country.
Friday is actually Veterans Day, where the cessation of fighting between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect in the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918.
For that reason, many Veterans Day remembrances are at 11 a.m. and there are plenty of opportunities Friday for you to participate.
Bowling Green Technical College will have a ceremony at the college’s main campus on Loop Drive at 11 a.m., and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1298 will have a program and luncheon at 11 a.m.
Western Kentucky University will honor 1st Lt. Eric D. Yates, a 2008 graduate who was killed last year in Afghanistan. He will be featured on a new granite panel that will be unveiled at the Guthrie Tower on WKU’s campus.
The tower and granite panels are a fitting tribute to area veterans, just as the Veterans’ Courtyard at the Warren County Courthouse is. The courtyard was the setting for Saturday’s flag-raising ceremony and is something Warren Countians should be proud to have.
Members of the Yates family and 85 members of his Army unit from Fort Campbell will attend the Veterans Day ceremony, which begins at 11 a.m. at the Guthrie Tower.
Members of Yates’ unit and family and others from the campus and community will participate in the Hilltopper Battalion ROTC program’s 5K run at 6:30 a.m. Friday. Proceeds from the run will benefit the 1st Lt. Eric Yates Memorial Scholarship.
Yates’ name will be among the 6,000 read during the National Roll Call on college campuses. WKU’s naming of those military personnel killed over the past 10 years will begin at 9 a.m. in WKU’s Mass Media and Technology Hall.
U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Hopkinsville, reminds us of the importance of veterans:
“The veterans of our armed forces answered a call to something greater than themselves through their selfless service and sacrifice. Our veterans stepped forward for their communities and their nation to ensure that the promise of freedom the United States inspires stands strong. America’s example to the world of a free society that determines its own destiny remains unbroken thanks to our veterans who have defended our freedom and our way of life.”
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