Recognitions through the area this Veterans Day are set, with the Geary County Veterans Alliance hosting a special program at the C.L. Hoover Opera House starting at eleven. Junction City High Principal Gennifer "G.G." Booth will be among those speaking at the event, which will include Presentation of the Colors by the Junction City Police Honor Guard.
The Flint Hills Veterans Coalition hosts their annual parade in Manhattan starting at 9:30, moving along Poyntz towards Memorial Auditorium. Their program follows at eleven.
There will be wreath laying ceremony at ten Thursday morning at Fort Riley's Post Cemetery, a rememberance for German and Italians who passed away whilebeing held as prisoners of war on post. There were 62 German and 11 Italians who died while being held, part of 45 hundred prisoners of war at Fort Riley from between 1943 and the end of World War II.