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Editor:
For those who like to thank or be around members of the Greatest Generation, your chance is coming soon. For the 15th year, the Mid-Continent Public Library in Platte City, Mo., will host its Veterans Salute, a full day to honor veterans of all wars.
The event is from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at 2702 Prairie View Road, Platte City. This year’s theme is “Pearl Harbor Remembered,” a fitting tribute 70 years after “The Day of Infamy.”
There are only four members of the Greater Kansas City area Pearl Harbor Veterans Associaton, and as of deadline, two have said they’ll attend. Most folks have never met a Pearl Harbor survivor, but you’ll get your chance in a few weeks.
The three Medal of Honor recipients in the area have all been to past salutes, and the coordinating committee hopes one or all can attend this year. All international students at the Command and General Staff College and the Combined Arms Center liaison officers have been invited to wear their nations’ uniform to the event.
The award-winning American Legion Band will be on hand to play appropriate martial music, and a CGSC instructor Dr. Dave Bitters will have several World War II-era radios inside the library to add soft sounds of 1940s music. Forty tables of historical displays will also be inside, and vintage vehicles and a re-enactment will be outside. Scheduled to attend are veterans of Corregidor and Iwo Jima; a Soldier who was among the first to cross the storied Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany; a former prisoner of war from the USS Pueblo; a Special Forces veteran of the Son Tay Raid in Vietnam; and other veterans of Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Everything is free, including parking. The displays will be up all day, and there will be two veterans’ roundtables — one of World War II veterans at 10:30 a.m., and one of nine CGSC students who are veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan at 1:30 p.m. Take your camera as photo opportunities will be available all day. The veterans are more than happy to answer any questions visitors may have. They enjoy meeting folks who enjoy meeting veterans.
If you sponsor a CGSC student, invite him or her to go with you. For more information, call the library at (816) 858-2322.
John Reichley
Leavenworth
Editor:
For those who like to thank or be around members of the Greatest Generation, your chance is coming soon. For the 15th year, the Mid-Continent Public Library in Platte City, Mo., will host its Veterans Salute, a full day to honor veterans of all wars.
The event is from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 22 at 2702 Prairie View Road, Platte City. This year’s theme is “Pearl Harbor Remembered,” a fitting tribute 70 years after “The Day of Infamy.”
There are only four members of the Greater Kansas City area Pearl Harbor Veterans Associaton, and as of deadline, two have said they’ll attend. Most folks have never met a Pearl Harbor survivor, but you’ll get your chance in a few weeks.
The three Medal of Honor recipients in the area have all been to past salutes, and the coordinating committee hopes one or all can attend this year. All international students at the Command and General Staff College and the Combined Arms Center liaison officers have been invited to wear their nations’ uniform to the event.
The award-winning American Legion Band will be on hand to play appropriate martial music, and a CGSC instructor Dr. Dave Bitters will have several World War II-era radios inside the library to add soft sounds of 1940s music. Forty tables of historical displays will also be inside, and vintage vehicles and a re-enactment will be outside. Scheduled to attend are veterans of Corregidor and Iwo Jima; a Soldier who was among the first to cross the storied Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen, Germany; a former prisoner of war from the USS Pueblo; a Special Forces veteran of the Son Tay Raid in Vietnam; and other veterans of Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Everything is free, including parking. The displays will be up all day, and there will be two veterans’ roundtables — one of World War II veterans at 10:30 a.m., and one of nine CGSC students who are veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan at 1:30 p.m. Take your camera as photo opportunities will be available all day. The veterans are more than happy to answer any questions visitors may have. They enjoy meeting folks who enjoy meeting veterans.
If you sponsor a CGSC student, invite him or her to go with you. For more information, call the library at (816) 858-2322.
John Reichley
Leavenworth
