Veterans Day 2013 at Luxembourg American Cemetery

Marines salute as ceremony attendees look on.
Marines salute during the 2013 Veterans Day Ceremony at Luxembourg American Cemetery.

The 2013 Veterans Day Ceremony at Luxembourg American Cemetery included the posting of colors, an invocation, guest remarks, reading of the Presidential Veterans Day Proclamation, a wreath-laying, a 21-gun salute, the playing of "Taps," singing of the national anthems, a benediction, and retiring of the colors. Event participants included:

  • Colonel Reese, Commander of the 86th Munitions Squadron Ramstein Germany
  • Marine Corps Security Detachment, U.S Embassy Luxembourg
  • Honor Flight, 86th Munitions Squadron Ramstein Germany
  • Honor Flight, 726th Air Mobility Squadron, 52nd Fighter Wing Spangdahlem Germany
  • Color Guard, Headquarters 3rd Air Force Ramstein Germany
  • Firing Detail, Headquarters 3rd Air Force Ramstein Germany
  • Bugler, Headquarters 3rd Air Force Germany
  • Chaplain, 52nd Fighter Wing Spangdahlem Germany
  • Chorus, Singing Sabers, Spangdahlem Air Base Germany
  • Boy Scout Troop 69, Kaiserslautern Germany