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The Veterans Day ceremony held every year at Fayette High School is special. It honors our local veterans and allows students to hear first-hand why the day is so important.
One highlight of the …
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The Veterans Day ceremony held every year at Fayette High School is special. It honors our local veterans and allows students to hear first-hand why the day is so important.
One highlight of the ceremony each year is the presentation of the Quilt of Valor to a local veteran. This year, the Peacemakers Quilters chose Specialist E4 Kavin Owings, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm.
Members of the American Legion posts 211 and 273 opened the ceremony with the presentation of colors before Boy Scout Troop 62 led the Pledge of Allegiance. The Fayette High School chorus delivered renditions of the “Star Spangled Banner” and “God Bless America.” Navy veteran Ben Roberts explained the symbolism of the set table in honor of our Prisoners of War and those Missing in Action. Mary Ellen Kerr, Regent of the Howard County Chapter of the Daughters of the America Revolution, served as the Master of Ceremonies, and the DAR placed a wreath in remembrance of our lost soldiers.
This year’s guest speaker was J. Y. Miller, a Glasgow native and veteran of the Vietnam War. At the end of his poignant and moving speech, which included life advice to the young students in the audience, Major Miller asked those in attendance to stand for the veterans “because they already stood for you.”
“We stood at attention at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo,” he said. “We stood on the heated decks of Navy ships in stormy seas. We stood in the doors of C130 aircraft. We stood in the bloody sand of Normandy Beach and Iwo Jima. We stood in the cold of Korea, and in the mud of Vietnamese swamps, and in the heat of desert sands. And we stood in cemeteries as the last rites of our friends and comrades were read. I’m not going to ask them to stand up now. They already stood for you. I’m going to ask you to stand right now and recognize these people.”
And the audience stood and applauded the men and women before them who served in our nation’s armed forces.
Prior to the service at the high school, a Veterans Day ceremony was held for elementary and middle school students at 9 a.m.
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