Large crowds gathered at the Golden Triangle Veterans Memorial Park to celebrate Veterans Day.

Jim White, Park Chair of VFW Post 4820 opened the ceremony followed by the firing of a cannon.

Chester Foret, Chaplain of VFW Post 4820, gave the invocation with introductions of guests by Herb Stafford, Commander of the Post. 

The guests included Congressman Ted Poe; Jefferson County Commissioners Bo Alford, Mark Domingue and Michael Sinegal; and Sheriff Mitch Wood.

Speeches were by Commissioner Domingue and Joe Bernard from ABC Construction.

A moving CD was played of the story behind the writing of The Stars Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Keys