WILMINGTON — Cape Fear Community College will host a Veterans Day ceremony to honor military personnel who have served the United States.
It will be held in Tabitha’s Courtyard, behind the G Building on downtown’s campus, 411 N. Front St., on Nov. 11, 11 a.m. Should weather be problematic, the ceremony will move to room U-170 in CFCC’s Union Station.
After the ceremony, veterans are invited to attend a free lunch in the L Building lobby.
There program will include speakers, readings and hymns, including:
- Presentation of Colors: Headquarters and Service Battalion Color Guard, U.S. Marine Corps
- National Anthem from U.S. Marine Benjamin Lacombe
- Invocation and benediction by Dino Medler, Master Chief Petty Officer, United States Navy, Retired
- Pledge of Allegiance led by U.S. Marine Trefor Hopkins
- Introductory Remarks by CFCC president Jim Morton
- “In Flanders Fields” Phil Garwood, Lieutenant Commander of Royal Canadian Navy Veteran
- Guest speaker Peter Champagne, retired Colonel United States Army
- Reading of “I am a Veteran” by U.S. Marine Diana Rios
- Service hymns from Marcus Abraham, retired from United States Army
- Scholarship Presentations
- Student speaker Eman Mohammed, United States Army National Guard
- TAPS
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