The ceremony will take place at 9:45 a.m. at Scott Plaza.
Elon University will honor the over 19 million veterans in the United States and the 12 veterans students currently at Elon with a ceremony on the morning of Veterans Day.
Thursday, November 11 at 9:45 a.m., Elon will hold a brief flag-raising ceremony in observance of Veterans Day at the flag pole on Scott Plaza.
Cadets from both Elon and North Carolina A&T Army and Air Force ROTC programs will present and raise the flag. Elon President Connie Ledoux Book and Mary Kay Hannah, assistant professor of Physical Therapy and U.S. Army veteran, will speak and University Chaplain Kirstin Boswell will provide closing remarks.
Elon was recognized as 2021-22 Military Friendly School by the national organization which measures “an organization’s commitment, effort and success in creating sustainable and meaningful benefit for the military community.”
Each school was selected on based on assessment of “ability to meet specific criteria in the areas of student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, persistence (degree advancement or transfer) and loan default rates for all students and, specifically, for student veterans.” Elon’s full ratings can be found on the Military Friendly website.
Veterans Day became a nationally observed holiday in 1938, and was first celebrated as “Armistice Day” in 1919 honoring the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day or the eleventh month” which was the end of World War I.