What a privilege it was to attend the Veterans Memorial Dedication Ceremony on the BSU Campus today. The pictures and my description really won't do it justice but I'll try. The main part of the memorial is a (steel) silhouette of a saluting soldier thus the appropriate name of the memorial being "Salute." The ceremony was very moving with students, faculty and student veterans speaking. We were also treated to music of the 25th Army Brass Band Quintent as well as an AH-64 Apache flyover to start the dedication ceremony (seen in the video montage below).
On a separate but similar note, I would like to thank all of you in my life, and the thousands of those I will never meet, that have served and/or are still serving our country in the armed forces. Just to name a few (and I'm sorry for those of you whom I have failed to list): My Dad and hero, Rick; my Uncle Darrell; my sister Ange'; my brother-in-law Adam (still active duty in the Coast Guard); my Uncle Terry; my cousin Erik; my cousin Paul; Grandpa "Big Joe"; Grandpa Dean; my friend Gary H.; my friend Eric B., my friend Nancy N., my friend Sean O. and my late Grandpa Art. Thank you for making this country the land of the free BECAUSE of (you) the brave.~
