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Palmdale to host Veterans Day Ceremony at Poncitlán Square

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PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale will host a Veterans Day Ceremony this Thursday.

It’s starts at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at the Poncitlán Square Gazebo, located at 38315 9th Street East (between Avenues Q-9 and Q-10.) The ceremony is free and open to the public.

The ceremony will feature:

  • Welcome remarks from Palmdale Mayor Steve Hofbauer and City Manager J.J. Murphy;
  • Recognition of local elected officials;
  • Presentation of colors by Highland High School CA-944 Air Force Color Guard with Instructor Winston Cagadas, Master Sergeant, US Air Force (retired);
  • Invocation by Pastor Anthony Roeback, veteran U.S. Army;
  • National Anthem sung by Alexandra Money, city of Palmdale;
  • Pledge of Allegiance by Dean Brown;
  • Veterans Day poem recited by Carl Hernandez, First Vice Commander, American Legion Post #348;
  • Keynote speaker Kevin Sanders, Palmdale Veteran of the Year 2021;
  • And the Armed Forces Medley.

For more information on this event, call 661-267-5611.

[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]

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5 comments for "Palmdale to host Veterans Day Ceremony at Poncitlán Square"

  1. This was a great event with the Mayor and city council of Palmdale. The city manager attended this event, too. He was with the Mayor of Palmdale at the Lancaster Cemetery ceremony one hour earlier. Lancaster was represented by Councilman Mann and former Mayor Hearns. The turn-out was good at both cities’ events.

    • Yes. was cool.

      I went and checked the signs on the seats and was pleasantly surprised that there were plenty reserved for veterans with only two rows reserved for people who were there to get face time acting like they actually support veterans. I think the city staff would have done well to make that more apparent. I saw quite a few veterans checking for wet grass where they were going to settle because they didn’t know they had such reserved seats. I was roaming around letting them know myself, but there was plenty of staff who could have been doing that.

      However, that provided the highlight of my day, because my “there’s seats reserved for veterans, not just for people who are here to look good” got a number of chuckles in response, and I do like making people laugh. And I myself got a HUGE laugh when I discovered that the one person who did NOT laugh turned out to be Lackey the lackey. When he was introduced and stood up there in the reserved face time section I just about fell out.

  2. Rest assured this will be a Rex free event. If it were a tribute to Communist China, he would be front and center with his nose halfway up their keesters. But for veterans? Not a chance.

    • Truth be told that’s just as well. I am thinking of going, and Wrecks makes me want to vomit so I’d rather he not.

      • The Veterans Day event in Palmdale is wonderful. It is always good when the mayor of Palmdale shows up, along with the other elected officials.