The Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial will add 102 veterans to its Wall of Honor during its annual Veterans Day ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 11, pushing the number of names on the granite wall past 7,000, KBTX reported.
It starts at 5:30 p.m. at the American Pavilion, inside Veterans Park and Athletic Complex at 3101 Harvey Road. The memorial's board holds the event every Nov. 11 at that hour, according to the memorial's events page.
The program
First on the program is the Honor Wall Roll Call, when the names of the newly added veterans are read aloud. The memorial has not posted the list of this year's honorees on its website.
After the roll call come the national anthem, a service medley saluting Brazos Valley Heroes, remarks and presentations, a rifle salute from the Ross Volunteers of the Texas A&M Corps of Cadets, and Taps.
The keynote speaker is Gregory W. Vogle, who directed the National Clandestine Service from January 2015 to August 2017, according to the memorial. Vogle was a U.S. Marine from 1981 to 1986.
About the wall
The Wall of Honor is a 250-ton red granite structure in the memorial's Louis L. Adam Memorial Plaza, and it carries names from every period of U.S. history, the memorial says. Honorees may be living, deceased or still serving, and they do not have to have lived in the Brazos Valley.
