Ceremony Marks 50th Year Since Vietnam War Exit, Honors Veterans

By TERESA WINCHESTER
GILBERTSVILLE

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 1339 invites the general public to its annual Veterans Day ceremony, to be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 10 at the Butternut Valley Grange Hall, 7 Bloom Street, Gilbertsville. The event, taking place one day before the official Veterans Day, will be in remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the departure of the United States from the undeclared war in Vietnam and will honor its 16 members of American Legion Post 1339 who are Vietnam veterans. Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Tianderah Chapter, will present special pins, and Girl Scouts have made cards with positive messages to present to this group of veterans. All deceased veterans will be remembered by a moment of silence.

Keynote speaker will be Unadilla Valley native Peter Lennon, retired U.S. Army Major General. As a leader in supply-chain operations, some of Lennon’s key assignments included theater-level transportation planner for the treaty implementation force in Bosnia-Herzegovina; director of strategic-level military transportation operations throughout the 23 middle-eastern countries of the United States’ Central Command; and commander of the 37,000-soldier 377th Theater Sustainment Command with forces throughout the eastern United States.