Image Gallery: Hanford American Legion Post welcomes 75 to Veterans Day event

Nearly everyone that attended wore a mask in deference to COVID-19, but it didn’t stop visitors from looking up friends and relatives at the wall set aside for veterans.

The guest speaker for the event was Brigadier General David G. Smith, Commander of the California State Guard's Air Component.

Even a group, referred to as the American Legion Riders, drove into the ceremony, parking their motorcycles alongside the attendees.

Included as part of the ceremony was the Missing Man Table, set up for those soldiers missing in action. It consisted of a white table cloth, a single rose, symbolizing blood, a slice of lemon for the bitterness of the fate of the missing, salt for the tears of waiting families, an inverted glass representing the missing who cannot partake, a bible for the spiritual strength that sustains the lost, and an empty chair for the absent soldier.

Photos by Gary Feinstein, Feinsteinfotos