This Saturday is Veterans Day and Chadron State College is hosting a series of special events and opportunities for the general public and specifically for veterans.
       It begins at 9:00 in the Student Center with a Veterans Day Ceremony that will also include a Quilts of Valor presentation to several local veterans.
Ceremonial military flags will be displayed by the Lindken Clock Tower.
The Chadron State football team has its final game of the season Saturday at home against South Dakota Mines, and the public is invited to join the team’s Eagle Walk at 9:55 at the southwest entrance of the Chicoine Center.
The Nebraska Army National Guard will have a static display of several military vehicles on the parking lot south of Elliott Field/Don Beebe Stadium during the football game, which kicks off at noon.
There will also be an earlier display from 10:00-noon of the Lakota helicopter on the practice field east of the track. The UH-72 Lakota is the Army’s Light Utility Helicopter. Stateside, it performs logistics and support missions for disaster response, medical evacuations, and security.
The Dawes County Veterans Honor Guard regularly presents the colors for the national anthem at football games and will again on Saturday.
Chadron State has a sports tripleheader Saturday with the volleyball team taking on New Mexico Highlands at 4:00 and the men’s basketball team playing Texas A&M Kingsville at 7:00 in addition to the football game
Admission for all 3 is free for veterans with military ID and veterans will be recognized at the volleyball match
There are also two special displays at Chadron State all month – one on military uniforms and patches in the Student Center and the Cory Mracek Purple Heart display in the Sandoz Center.
Staff Sgt Corey Mracek was a Hay Springs native and Chadron State College alumnus who was killed by an IED in Iraq in January 2004. Congress later named the Chadron Post Office in his honor.