Veterans Day events slated
Published 6:13 pm Wednesday, November 6, 2013
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, World War I effectively ended.
That occurrence is the roof of the Veterans Day observance in the United States of America.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month this year, American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 15 will present a Veterans Day service at Veterans Memorial Park on East Third Street in Washington. Frank Stancil, adjutant for the North Carolina Department of the American Legion, will deliver the keynote address at the observance, which is expected to last about an hour.
The National Sojourners Camp, Camp Lejeune Chapter No. 329, will present the story of how the American flag was first created. Carolina Chord Connection will lead the musical support for the program.
To honor veterans this year, Unit No. 15 members offer area individuals and families an opportunity to have a card honoring a specific veteran attached to an American flag to be displayed at Veterans Memorial Park. The card will include the veteran’s name, his/her time of service, branch of service and the names of those who are honoring the veterans. The veterans being honored and remembered will be identified during the program. Unit members plan to have 120 flags displayed from Veterans Day though Dec. 7.
The flags are on sale through today.Anyone interested in participating in the flag program should contact Betsey Lee Hodges at 975-4790.
Bath Elementary School will conduct its annual Veterans Day observance at 10 a.m. Friday in the school’s gymnasium. The observance is open to the public.
The event involves students in the observance, a longstanding tradition at the school. The observance includes honoring veterans and active-duty military personnel from the Bath community.
Washington’s Golden Corral will host its Military Appreciation Monday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Veterans Day. Free meals will be provided to veterans and active-duty military personnel.
Last year, Golden Corral restaurants raised $1.2 million for the Disabled American Veterans. Last year was the third year in a row that Golden Corral and its patrons raised more than $1 million for the DAV.
Golden Corral restaurants have served more than 3.7 million “thank-you” meals to veterans and active-duty military personnel.
About Mike Voss
Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.
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