Members of the Putnam County Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps presented the nation’s colors Monday morning for Veterans Day at Putnam County Veterans Wall of Honor Park in downtown Eatonton. IAN TOCHER/Staff
Reverend Sidney Jackson, a Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran, gave the keynote speech for the Eatonton Veterans Day event. IAN TOCHER/Staff
Putnam County High School student Katie Pittman played Taps to cap off the event. IAN TOCHER/Staff
Loretta Hampton sang the national anthem with style and grace. IAN TOCHER/Staff
U.S. Army veteran Nicole Barker organized the Eatonton Veterans Day event. IAN TOCHER/Staff
Members of the Eatonton Police Department Honor Guard shot three rounds of seven for a 21-gun salute to fallen veterans on Monday morning at the Putnam County Veterans Wall of Honor Park in Eatonton. IAN TOCHER/Staff
For 10 years now, U.S. military veterans and their supporters have been gathering for Veterans Day at the Putnam County Veterans Wall of Honor Park at the west end of downtown Eatonton. More than 120 people – including many veterans from almost every branch of military service – were there again Monday morning for a Veterans Day ceremony that began promptly at 11 a.m. and lasted...
