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KENNESAW –– Kennesaw State University’s ROTC cadets will honor America’s veterans
on Thursday, Nov. 10, with a keynote address by Col. John H. Hort, chief of plans,
G-3, U.S. Army Forces Command, based at Fort McPherson, Ga. On Friday, Nov. 11, Kennesaw
State joins campus and community volunteers across the nation to read the names of
the 6,300 casualties of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, now
called Operation New Dawn. Thursday’s ceremony will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
on the Campus Green, in front of KSU Hall. Friday’s reading will be from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m. at the Legacy Gazebo Amphitheatre, next to Willingham Hall. The Legacy Gazebo
grounds will be marked with 6,300 flags, and Friday’s event will include a minute
of silence at 2 p.m. All of the events are open to the public. …