SLIDE SHOW: POW-MIA Remembrance Day observance
A local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day, which was Friday, took place Saturday at the Army National Guard Armory. The event was organized by Rolling Thunder Kentucky Chapter 2 in honor of the roughly 83,000 U.S. military servicemembers who have been prisoners of war and/or missing in action.
Curtis Littrell, a member of Disabled American Veterans Chapter 20 in Glasgow, leads the opening prayer Saturday for the local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day at the Army National Guard Armory in Glasgow. Behind him, from left, are Jimmie Dixon, president of Rolling Thunder Kentucky Chapter 2, which organized the event, and Barren County High School Jr. ROTC Cadet Sgt. Maj. Mason Smith. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Amber Wolfe performs the national anthem during a local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day on Saturday at the Army National Guard Armory in Glasgpw. From left are members of the Barren County High School Jr. ROTC, Jimmie Dixon, president of Rolling Thunder Kentucky Chapter 2, which organized the event, BCHS Jr. ROTC Cadet Sgt. Maj. Mason Smith, Wolfe, and Cary Eaton, who delivered the keynote address. Wolfe, her husband and her father are all veterans, she said. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Barren County High School Jr. ROTC members stand in preparation for the missing-man table ceremony in honor of service members who have been prisoners of war and/or are missing in action during the local POW-MIA Remembrance Day observance event organized by Rolling Thunder Kentucky Chapter 2 at the Army National Guard Armory in Glasgow on Saturday evening. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Vietnam War veteran Cary Eaton delivers the keynote address at Saturday's local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day in the gymnasium of the Army National Guard Armory in Glasgow. Immediately in front of the podium is a POW-MIA chair and in the foreground is the table used for the missing-man ceremony, both reminders of service members who have been prisoners of war and/or missing in action. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Vietnam War veteran Cary Eaton delivers the keynote address at Saturday's local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day in the gymnasium of the Army National Guard Armory in Glasgow. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Members of the Barren County High School Jr. ROTC set hats representing the five branches of U.S. military service on a table as they perform the missing-man table ceremony in honor of U.S. military service members who have been prisoners of war and/or missing in action during the local observance Saturday of POW-MIA Remembrance Day. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Barren County High School Jr. ROTC members hold up their swords during the missing-man table ceremony in honor of service members who have been prisoners of war and/or are missing in action during the local POW-MIA Remembrance Day observance event organized by Rolling Thunder Kentucky Chapter 2 at the Army National Guard Armory in Glasgow on Saturday evening. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Vietnam War veteran Cary Eaton, who had delivered the keynote address at Saturday's local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day in the gymnasium of the Army National Guard Armory in Glasgow, lights a candle sitting on the table used for the missing-man ceremony performed by members of the Barren County High School Jr. ROTC in honor of service members who have been prisoners of war and/or missing in action. Standing behind him are a few of the members of Disabled American Veterans Chapter 20 who carried out a 21-gun salute outside the gymnasium toward the conclusion of the event. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
Billy Houchens, a member of Disabled American Veterans Chapter 20, sets a wreath at the base of the POW-MIA flag during a local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day in honor of U.S. military servicemembers who have been prisoners of war and/or missing in action. The event had been scheduled to take place at Beula C. Nunn Park downtown but was moved to the Army National Guard Armory due to rain. The wreath was to be placed on the flagpole at the park, home of the Glasgow-Barren County Veterans Wall of Honor later. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times.
Rolling Thunder Kentucky Chapter 2 member Roy Dial plays taps just outside the gymnasium of the Army National Guard Armory at the conclusion of Saturday's local observance of POW-MIA Remembrance Day. Melinda J. Overstreet / Glasgow Daily Times
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