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Ceremony to honor Veterans
Day
By Corey Collins
Staff
Writer
The Purdue Student Union
Board is hosting a series of Veterans Day celebrations today. These
events will begin at 11 a.m. in the Great Hall of the Purdue Memorial
Union to honor those, both living and dead, who served with the U.S.
armed forces in times of war.
The celebration will start
with a traditional ceremony. The ROTC, Purdue Musical Organizations
and American Legion Post #11 will take part in the patriotic aspects
of the ceremony. Martha Montalvo, cultural events director, will open
and close the ceremony and Bob Mindrum, director of the Union, will
speak about the importance of Veterans Day.
A relationship between Veterans
Day and the Purdue Memorial Union has existed since the building was
constructed, embodying the ideas of the holiday. Mindrum said that after
World War I, the Union was named after the 4,013 Purdue men and women
who served and the 67 of them who died serving in the war. He said that
the Union staff's attitude toward those who served is one of gratitude.
"We feel that those people
who fought protected the freedoms of us today," said Mindrum.
Unfortunately, the magnitude
of student's attendance of the Veterans celebrations is stifled by the
fact that the United States has not had a particularly trying war in
such a long time, he said. "Today's college students, except through
movies and books, don't have a good gasp of what war is about," said
Mindrum. "A university's primary goal is education and this will educate
students about Veterans Day."
Gary Steinhardt, who served
in both the Vietnam and Gulf wars with the army, is the Veterans Day
speaker. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue and teaches an agronomy course.
Besides the festivities taking
place today to honor the holiday, the Purdue Student Union Board is
hosting other weekend events. There will be a pep rally on Saturday
and a showing of "Scary Movie" in Fowler Hall today and Saturday. The
College Bowl will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
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