Veterans Day Celebration
By: Philip Wood, Photographer
Members of the American Legion Color Guard remove the colors at the end of the Veterans Day ceremony at Veterans Memorial Hall Monday morning.
Congressman Tom McClintock, left, presents VFW Post 169 Commander Dave Ramsey with a Congressional Certificate of Recognition during the Veterans Day Celebration Monday morning.
Placer County Supervisor Jack Duran, left, addresses the audience at the Veterans Day Celebration Monday morning after presenting VFW Post 169 Commander Dave Ramsey with a county proclamation.
Pamela MacKenzie stands and sings “The Air Force Song” as current and former members of the United States Air Force stand. Members from each branch of the military stood while their song was preformed. MacKenzie also sang the National Anthem near the beginning of the event.
Col. Keith Tresh, keynote speaker for the Roseville Veterans Day Celebration, points out his father in the audience who, served in the military and is a role model for him.
Yasmena Hijjawi, 2, holds a program while in the arms of her mother, Heather, as the audience stoands up and sings along with “America the Beautiful” during the Veterans Day Celebration in Roseville Monday morning. Heather’s grandfather, who served in the military, recently passed away.
About 200 people attended the Veterans Day Celebration in Roseville to honor the nation’s war veterans Monday morning. Veterans who served in all of the wars from Afghanistan going back to World War II were present, including lesser known conflicts in between such as Bosnia and Grenada. The 20th century war that was not represented by a veteran was World War I, of which there are believed to be no more American survivors, but they were not forgotten. “We need to remind our young people that freedom is not free and comes at a high cost,” said Dave Ramsey, commander of VFW Post 169. Congressman Tom McClintock, State Assemblywoman Beth Gaines, Placer County Supervisor Jack Duran, Roseville Mayor Pauline Roccucci and keynote speaker Col. Keith Tresh of the National Guard made brief presentations about Veterans Day, what it’s about and thanking the veterans for their service to the country.