LUPD’s color guard present the flags during the Veterans Day event in the Sheila Umphrey Rec Center, Nov. 11. UP photo by Heather Harmon
Lamar University celebrated Veterans Day, Nov. 11, with a lunch in the Sheila Umphrey Recreational Sports Center.
Caleb Hood, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and a former Marine, was the emcee for the event. The event began with LUPD’s color guard’s presentation the flags, and Hood led the gathering in the Pledge of Allegiance, before President Jaime Taylor spoke in honor of servicemen and women.
Hood said Veterans Day is a chance to remember the people who have served.
“You do these things when you’re really young, and time passes,” he said. “You keep events that shape your life as a periodic thing once a year, where you remember when you did things that were so much larger than you as an individual — you did something that was a part of your nation, a part of your community. The remembrance of that, people coming together and saying what you did matters, is one of the things that is super important to me.
“It’s the idea that service to a thing larger than yourself matters. That’s why I like Veterans Day.”