Editor's Note: The annual Veteran’s Day ceremony at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Wednesday (Nov. 11) will have a change of venue because of the forecast for rain.
The free public ceremony will be at 11 a.m. in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building at 325 Pittsboro Street, near McCauley Street and across from the State Employees’ Credit Union.
More than 100 ROTC cadets and midshipmen will assemble in dress uniforms at 11 a.m.
Maj. Gen. Richard B. Goetze Jr., Ph.D., of Arlington, Va., retired from the Air Force after 30 years, will speak. Goetze flew more than 1,200 hours on 280 combat missions over Vietnam. He worked with the Strategic Air Command, for which he developed and maintained the national strategic nuclear war plan, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Since retiring in 1989, Goetze has worked with private and public entities, including serving as president of the College of Aeronautics in New York City.
Members of the University and local communities, including veterans, are invited to attend.
The Air Force ROTC Unit will sponsor this year’s ceremony, organized by AFROTC Cadet Steve Quinn, a senior from Fayetteville. Additional sponsors will be the UNC College of Arts and Sciences and its curriculum in peace, war and defense.
Veterans Day, formerly Armistice Day, falls on Nov. 11, the anniversary of the armistice signing by the Allies and the Germans in 1918 that ended World War I. For more information about the UNC ceremony, call the aerospace studies department in the College of Arts and Sciences at (919) 962-2074.
