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Featuring live music, food, and speakers, including various veterans, American Legion, and the West Virginia National Cemetery, the celebration brought together local veterans and their families and friends to honor those who have served and remember those we’ve lost.
Bob Taylor, a Lewis County resident and volunteer of the celebration, spoke with 12 News about being able to bring veterans together.
“We can’t do enough for our veterans. Freedom is not free. They’re protecting our freedoms, and this is just a small thing we can do on Veterans Day is give them the opportunity to come out,” Taylor said.
The keynote speaker of the afternoon was Lt. General Robert Caslen, a United States military veteran and former superintendent of West Point. After retiring, he obtained his doctorate degree from Salem University and now serves on the board of trustees.
Caslen was superintendent during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and says his students were a generation of leaders.
“Veterans are young men and women who, despite the hardships that they foresaw, decided to take the step and serve their country. And when their country needed them, they said, ‘Send me, I’ll be there for you.’ And they stood in the gap between the evil that threatens our nation and our nation’s values in America,” Caslen said.
More than 175 people were in attendance, and at least 100 of them were veterans.
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