Honoring the Veterans

This year our Academy had its annual Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony on November 11th over in the business commons. For this ceremony cadets are asked to read three poems, which included The soldier, In Flanders field, and The Meaning of taps.

The entire battalion stands at ease while the ceremony begins.

The colors are presented and then the ceremony is under way.

The cadets selected to read, stand at ease respectfully as the poems are read.

Taps is played after The meaning of taps is read.

Cadets present arms as taps played

Cadets dress to the right and then are sent to their respective classes to practice cadet knowledge

After the Honoring of the Veterans Ceremony at our academy, cadets signed up for a Memorial Parade at Library Park on November 12 in which Wisconsin’s 1st infantry and cavalry divisions were featured.