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Veterans Day ceremony Friday at Lancaster Cemetery

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The Lancaster ceremony starts at 9 a.m. in the Veterans Court of Honor at the Lancaster Cemetery, located at 111 E. Lancaster Blvd, Lancaster. (Photo from 2013 event)
The Lancaster ceremony starts at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, in the Veterans Court of Honor at the Lancaster Cemetery, located at 111 E. Lancaster Blvd., Lancaster. (Photo from past event)

LANCASTER – The Lancaster Cemetery will host a Veterans Day ceremony this Friday to honor and celebrate veterans from all wars and conflicts.

The ceremony will start at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at the cemetery’s Veterans Court of Honor, located at 111 East Lancaster Boulevard in Lancaster. This event is free and open to the public.

The featured speaker will be Christine Yandek, who enlisted in the U.S. Army and established a near-20-year career of dedicated service.  Yandek served three tours in the Iraq War (1st Infantry Div. and 82nd Airborne Div.) and earned her combat medic badge for performing the lifesaving duties of a medic while being directly engaged by hostile enemy insurgents. Yandek was hired by the contract security firm Blackwater at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. She is, to date, the only woman to serve at a U.S. embassy anywhere in the Middle East. Today Yandek is active with the American Legion, the Legion Auxiliary and the VFW. She is an advocate for arts therapy programs for veterans dealing with a multitude of issues, including PTSD.  She is also a five-time national gold medalist – a featured veteran performer – in the VA’s National Creative Arts Festival and Competition.

Friday’s Veterans Day ceremony will also feature the Antelope Valley High School Navy JROTC, led by Sgt. Maj. Will Ward, presenting the Colors.  Antelope Valley Blue Star Mothers will place the military service wreaths at the flagpoles, and Halley Olsen Murphy Funerals and Cremations will provide the refreshments.

For more information, contact  Dayle DeBry at Lancaster Cemetery at 661-942-6110.

[Information via news release from Lancaster Cemetery.]

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2 comments for "Veterans Day ceremony Friday at Lancaster Cemetery"

  1. Our family usually feels proud to be Americans, my father served in the US Air Force and flew single and double engine planes all his life. My husband served in the military for 21 years, but today we just can’t celebrate. What an embarrassment we’ve become, we sacrificed so much for so long, for what? We feel sick to our stomach that a racist pig is our president-elect, we will not be silenced and we will respond to racism and hatred with a vicious hand- plain and simple!

    #notmypresident

    • You are the embarrassment.boo hoo,hilary didn’t make it.too damn bad.move.I will help you.won’t celberate veterans day because you don’t like democracy!what a slap to all those who served.go march in the street,burning,looting.youre the pig.