(Cushing, Okla.) American Legion Post 108 will hold its Veteran’s Day ceremonies inside the Cushing Senior Citizen Center due to cold weather expected to blow in late Monday. Ceremonies are slated for 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014.
The Cushing Senior Citizen Center is located at 203 E. Cherry, across the street from Donaldson/Walker Post 108 at 214 S. Noble Street in Cushing.
Everyone is invited to attend.
For the past few years, KUSH has helped honor veterans by running a poem written by Vivian Lauderdale Martin. Here is her poem Echo of Veterans:
Echo of Veterans
Americans, listen! Listen for echoes! Reverberating on this Veterans Day.
Echoes of battlefields, stained with the blood of our service men and women as they struggled to keep our country safe for all people.
Free for a tomorrow they would not see but confident their beliefs and trust in God would provide freedom and happiness to all people in America.
Listen for echoes from the battlefields where good men and women gave their lives for faith in our nation and what it stands for so other nations can have the same freedoms.
All brave soldiers united in a time when religion, society and government were the hope of the country and not hindered by hypocrisy and bureaucracy.
Listen! It is echoes of voices from those battlefields telling us to renew our trust and confidence in this heritage that has survived more than 234 years.
We pray for this Nation to be strong and for these echoes to gain momentum becoming louder and louder until they become a mighty roar as
UNITED WE STAND
Thank you, VETERANS!
By Vivian Lauderdale Martin
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