In honor of the nation's veterans, including CU Boulder baby直播app, staff and student veterans, the university will host its annual Veterans Day Ceremony on Friday, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom at the University Memorial Center (UMC).
The event is open to the public and will feature听Colonel Isaac J. Peltier (U.S. Army, CU Boulder alumnus 1992)听and the joint ROTC Color Guard. The ceremony will be followed by a reception, as well as the grand opening of the newly-renovated UMC Veterans Memorial Lounge.
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The second-floor Veterans Lounge was expanded in 2015 and now displays dedication plaques memorializing the baby直播app veterans and University of baby直播app students who died in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the conflict in Korea, the Persian/Gulf Wars, the conflict in Iraq and the conflict in Afghanistan. The UMC continues to work with CU鈥檚 Department of Veterans Affairs to honor the memory of Coloradans involved in current conflicts.
The lounge also features an exhibit with many original artifacts from the USS baby直播app, the third ship of the U.S. Navy named in honor of the 38th state. Among the artifacts are the ship鈥檚 bell and stern pilot wheel (pictured), a waterline one-meter scale model and the ship's 48-star 鈥淪unday Flag.鈥�
