CFCC to Host Veterans Day Ceremony on Thursday, November 9

Wilmington, NC – Cape Fear Community College will host a Veterans Day Ceremony at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 9, 2023. The ceremony will take place in Tabitha’s Courtyard , located behind the G Building on CFCC’s downtown campus (411 N. Front Street, Wilmington). The ceremony will honor the brave men and women who have served our nation.

The ceremony will include:

• Presentation of Colors – Headquarters and Service Battalion Color Guard, U.S. Marine Corps
• National Anthem
• Welcome – Gilbert “Mac” Montgomery, United States Army Veteran
• Invocation – Jonathan Barfield, U.S. Navy Veteran, New Hanover County Commissioners, CFCC Board of Trustees member
• Pledge of Allegiance – Tyler Cady, U.S. Air Force Veteran accompanied by children of the Bonnie Sanders Burney Child Development Center
• Introductory Remarks – Jim Morton, CFCC President
• “In Flanders Fields” – Phil Garwood, Lieutenant Commander of Royal Canadian Navy Veteran
• Guest Speaker – Bob Philpott, Retired Captain of the U.S. Coast Guard
• Reading of “I am a Veteran” – Steve Kim, U.S. Army Veteran
• Service Hymns – Andreah Anderson, U.S. Army Veteran and CFCC Student
• Southeastern North Carolina Chapter of the Military Officers Association – Crissy Sandford, Colonel, United States Army Veteran
• Veteran Scholarship Presentation
• Student Speaker – Thomas Herdman, U.S. Marine Corps and Army Veterans and member of the CFCC Student Veteran Organization
• TAPS – U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Marine Air Wing Band
• Benediction – Jonathan Barfield, U.S. Navy Veteran, New Hanover County Commissioners, CFCC Board of Trustees member

Following the ceremony, all veterans are invited to a free lunch in the Bob Philpott Veterans Center (located on the first floor of CFCC’s Union Station (502 N. Front Street, Wilmington, NC).