Arkansas Celebrates Veterans Day
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A few hundred veterans and their families
gathered for Veterans Day ceremonies at the Arkansas Capitol today.
State Veterans Affairs Director Nick Bacon told the group that this
day is difficult because American troops are again fighting
oversees and that some of them won`t be coming home. He was awarded
the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam.
This morning, about fifty people gathered at Little Rock`s
National Cemetery for a ceremony and Catholic Mass. 73-year-old
Lupe Montalvo from Haskell wore a bright red Marine Corps jacket
and said he`s happy to see the resurgence of patriotism following
the September Eleventh terrorist attacks.
