OHIO, Athens to celebrate Veterans Day over a week

Ohio College and town of Athens are internet hosting a week-long celebration with a number of occasions to thank veterans for his or her service this 12 months.

“Veterans Day is a chance for folk to take day trip of their day to thank these Individuals which have raised their proper hand and brought an oath to assist and defend the Structure…It’s an essential factor to recollect,” mentioned Lt. Col. (Retired) Terry St. Peter, director of the OHIO Veterans and Army Scholar Companies Heart.

A predominant aim of the OHIO Veterans and Army Scholar Companies Heart this 12 months is to let present scholar and alumni veterans share tales on who they’re, why they served, and why they got here to OHIO.

College students, school and workers could have the chance to put in writing personalised notes thanking OHIO veterans for his or her service on Tuesday and Wednesday in Baker College Heart. The OHIO neighborhood can meet and join with scholar veterans at these tables. The Ohio College Alumni Affiliation can also be having a marketing campaign the place folks can write of their thank-you notes. There may even be a fundraising marketing campaign for donors to go away thank-you notes with their donations.

The Military ROTC and the Air Pressure ROTC detachments will take part in a Veterans Day Parade, together with different native veteran organizations and neighborhood members, on Friday, Nov. 11. This 12 months’s theme is “By no means Overlook These That Gave Their Todays for Our Tomorrows.” The parade will start at 10 a.m. at Armory Park, go down Courtroom Avenue and finish on School Inexperienced.

The American Legion Publish 21 will host a breakfast earlier than the parade and a lunch after.

OHIO’s hockey staff could have a army appreciation night time throughout their recreation in opposition to Pittsburgh on Friday, Nov. 11, at 7 p.m.