Years or even decades after they fought in military conflicts for the U.S., UCLA student veterans gathered Monday at the university’s seventh annual Veterans Day ceremony to contemplate their service and the fights that lie ahead.
The event in Wilson Plaza, which included a resource fair with Army Reserve Officer Training Corps programs, government agency services and university programs for veterans, began in 2007. It grew out of a ceremony that year in the memory of UCLA ROTC alumnus Mark J. Daily, who was killed in Iraq by an improvised explosive device in January 2007. About 60 people, mostly ROTC members, attended the ceremony.
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