Local residents, including veterans and their families, thanked and honored those who have fought and died while serving in the military at the annual downtown Morgan Hill Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11.
Morgan Hill native and Live Oak High School alumnus Eddie Bowers, who served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war, was honored by Assemblymember Luis Alejo’s office as one of the district’s Veterans of the Year.
Bowers, the creator of the downtown veterans memorial at Monterey Road and First Street and the lead organizer of the annual ceremony, invited all his fellow veterans to the front of the crowd as he accepted the proclamation from Alejo spokesman Daniel Dodge.
“We all deserve to be the Veteran of the Year,” Bowers said.
The Veterans Day ceremony program consisted of a flag raising, a prayer and wreath laying, patriotic songs by local students and a playing of “Taps.” Local veteran Connor Quinn read the “honor roll,” the list of Morgan Hill residents who have died while serving the country overseas.
