Salina Post’s Nate King broadcasts The Leslie W. Kreps American Legion Post 62 and Salina VFW Auxiliary Post 1432 Annual Veterans Day ceremony.
By NATE KING
Salina Post
Despite windy and cold temperatures, members of the community, city officials, students, veterans, and their families gathered to celebrate and appreciate veterans Friday morning in Sunset Park at the Salina-Saline County War Memorial.
"I was very surprised that we had this many people and I was really, really super impressed with the kids from Southeast Saline. Yeah. Like I said, I mentioned, you know, Southeast Saline comes and shows up here, but where are the rest of our schools?," said Stan Britt, American Legion Post 62 president.
Coffee, donuts and hot chocolate were served to ceremony attendees by members of the VFW Auxiliary Post 1432.
"This day is the day to do something that everybody should take the time to do. To think about veterans and their service to this great nation," Britt said.
The war memorial, located in Salina's Sunset Park was dedicated to the City of Salina in 1994. The founding committee of the memorial filed dissolution papers with the state of Kansas in 1995. Over two decades later, a new committee was formed to discuss an expansion of the original memorial to include additional veterans.
"Right along with this war memorial we're trying to move along and do some improvements here and add more brick stones. This memorial is something that is near and dear to my heart," Britt said.
The new expansion design will include two new octagon shaped memorials that will double as seating areas.
If you would like mor information regarding the memorial improvements click here.
