Veterans Day - City Hall Closed

US CONGRESSMAN GREG WALDEN and State REPRESENTATIVE DUANE STARK
TO SPEAK AT CENTRAL POINT VETERANS DAY COMMEMORATION

This Veterans Day, citizens from across the valley will honor Veterans who have served our country and honor their loved ones and those who have passed on. The memory of those that have given their lives in service is the reason we commemorate Veterans Day. 

The Central Point Parks and Recreation staff invites southern Oregonians to attend the annual Veterans Day Commemoration at the Fallen War Heroes Memorial. U.S. Congressman Greg Walden and State Representative Duane Stark will join the Central Point community in honoring Oregon’s Fallen Heroes on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at 9 a.m. 

This year a free breakfast provided by a local church group and patriotic music provided by the Jefferson Pipe Band will add to this important, annual family event. Begin your morning with a hearty free breakfast at 8:00 a.m. with homemade biscuits and gravy. At 9:00 am the Veterans Day Commemoration will begin with an Invocation, Flag Ceremony, and National Anthem, US Congressman Greg Walden and State Representative Stark will then speak. Please join us this Veteran’s Day as the entire program will conclude in less than one hour.

The Fallen War Heroes Memorial is dedicated to honoring and remembering every Oregon Veteran and service man and woman killed in the line-of-duty from Oregon’s statehood to the present. It is a perfect setting to commemorate those who sacrificed in service to our nation’s military.

In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"

The original concept for the celebration was for a day observed with parades and public meetings and a brief suspension of business beginning at 11:00 a.m.

The United States Congress officially recognized the end of World War I when it passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926, with these words:

Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed, and

Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and

Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared November 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the President of the United States is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.