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Lower Cape Fear LifeCare's Brunswick County Pinning Team recently honored retired veteran Dewey Simpson of Supply with a Veteran pinning ceremony.
Just this year, the General Assembly passed legislation that helps veterans obtain jobs, supports veteran-owned businesses and funds honor guard ceremonies for veteran funerals. We have a lot more ...
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A "ramp ceremony" is a memorial ceremony, not an actual funeral, for a soldier killed in a war zone held at an airfield near or in a location where an airplane is waiting nearby to take the deceased's remains to his or her home country. The term has been in use since at least 2003 [13] and became common during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [14]
A pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated or soon-to-be graduated nurses into the nursing profession. The history of the ceremony dates back to the Crusades in the 12th century, and later, when Queen Victoria awarded Florence Nightingale the Royal Red Cross for her service as a military nurse during the Crimean War. By 1916 ...
Veterans Day is Monday, Nov. 11, but many events honoring the day are happening this weekend.We celebrate the brave men and women of our country's military with this list of Veterans Day events in ...
On Nov. 10 at the Otsego County War Memorial in downtown Gaylord, they and every other veteran from the county were remembered at a special Veterans Day ceremony presented by the Ralph Holewinski ...
Let us honor our veterans and give them the recognition they deserve with these Veterans Day quotes. The post 35 Veterans Day Quotes That Honor Those Who Served appeared first on Reader's Digest.