CLC Veterans Day Ceremony

Darl Drummond, VP of Student Development at the College of Lake County greets everyone at a Veterans Day Ceremony. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

Commander Roger C. Buoma, Navy Chaplain, leads a prayer at the College of Lake County's Veterans Day Ceremony. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

Zandra Genous, Director of Student Support Systems at the College of Lake County, singing the National Anthem at a Veterans Day Ceremony in Grayslake at CLC. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

Paul Hettich, Military Personnel Psychiatrist, talks with other veterans at the College of Lake County's Veterans Day Ceremony. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

The College of Lake County hosts a Veterans Day Ceremony. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

Army Major Charles Nystrom salutes during the prayer at the College of Lake County's Veterans Day Ceremony. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

Debra D. Lewis, Retired Hospital Corpsman First Class (E6), speaks at the College of Lake County's Veterans Day Ceremony, about her time getting into and being in the military. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

After the College of Lake County's Veterans Day Ceremony, Veterans gathered outside at a Memorial to look at friend's and familes' stones dedicated to those that gave their lives for our freedom. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

Ken Parrish, Retired Marine, with Carol Cunningham of Grayslake, looking at friend's and family's memorial stones, dedicated to those that gave their lives in order to keep our country free. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

Allen Greenspon, looking at all the dedication stones of his freind's and family at the College of Lake County's Veteran Memorial. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

John Trinca, WWII Veteran, pointing to several stones that he had put in, two dedicated to Pvt. Thomas Bateman, a soldier that took him 25 years to find his name, fell in WWII under his command.  At the College of Lake County's Veteran Memorial in Grayslake. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

John Trinca, WWII Veteran, chats with Debra D. Lewis, Retired Hospital Corpsman First Class, at the College of Lake County's Veteran Memorial in Grayslake. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

The College of Lake County hosts a Veterans Day Ceremony. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media

The College of Lake County hosts a Veterans Day Ceremony. | Mark Ukena~For Sun-Times Media