News Release

Local angle: Greensboro

Free public Veteran’s Day ceremony
to feature music, dress uniforms, speaker

CHAPEL HILL — More than 150 ROTC midshipmen and cadets will assemble in dress uniforms Friday (Nov. 11) for the annual Veteran’s Day ceremony at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Veterans of foreign wars dating to World War II are expected to attend. The UNC Brass Quintet will provide patriotic music for the ceremony, including a traditional military tribute to veterans past and present – a medley of service tunes and patriotic music.

Retired Navy Lt. Wade Phillips of Greensboro, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War, will speak. The public – especially veterans and their families, and UNC faculty, staff, and students – are invited to attend the free event at noon in Hill Hall Auditorium.

"Veterans’ Day honors all our military veterans," said Capt. Carlton Puryear, commanding officer of the Naval ROTC Unit at UNC and professor and chair of the Naval science department. "However, this being the 60^th anniversary of the end of World War II, the service is especially dedicated to veterans of that conflict."

The Naval ROTC Unit will sponsor this year’s the ceremony. UNC also is home to Army and Air Force ROTC units.

Attendees are invited to a reception in Hill Hall after the ceremony. Sponsors will be the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, curriculum in peace, war and defense and the Carolina Troop Supporters.

Limited parking will be available in the Swain Lot off Cameron Avenue. Visitors also may park in Town of Chapel Hill pay lots on Rosemary Street. For more information, call the Naval ROTC office at (919) 962-1198.

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Note: The presidential proclamation of Veteran’s Day this year is posted at http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/proc2005.htm

Naval science department contact: Janis Carter, (919) 962-1198, carter1@email.unc.edu
News Services contacts: Print, L.J. Toler, (919) 962-8589; broadcast, Karen Moon, (919) 962-8595