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Rosalia hosts annual Veteran's Day ceremony

Veterans Day program honors those who have served

ROSALIA- A crowd of people filled the Rosalia Veterans Park to honor those who served on Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11.

Attendees were welcomed and reminded in 1918, on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month the Allied countries signed an Armistice with Germany to end WWI, declaring the day a federal holiday in 1938 following the aftermath of WWII and the Korean War becoming known as Veterans Day.

Clinton Tucker who received his Quilt of Valor at the Veterans Day program on Friday, Nov. 8, gave an invocation praying for remembrance of those who served, including the MIAs, the wounde...

 

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