Schools in the Carbon County School District No. 2 are holding Veteran Day assemblies.

Encampment K-12 is holding a Veterans Day assembly November 11, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. The National Honor Society will be collecting retired flags for the Veterans of Foreign Post 6125 disposal. Visitors need to sign in at the office before going to the main gym for the program.

United States Air Force veterans Alex and Karen Smith can be found in full force at downtown’s Shively Hardware in Saratoga moving here in November 2023.

Karen is no stranger to Saratoga as she grew up in Omaha, Nebraska and Saratoga, Wyoming. Her mom, Mary Jellen, is the second of the Glode/Shively children making Karen a 4th generation to work in the family hardware store.

It has been nearly a decade since the Platte Valley Trout Unlimited has sponsored wounded veterans to a fishing retreat in the Valley.

That is changing thanks to an effort of several volunteer groups in the Encampment.

The Veterans of Foreign Service and the National Society of the Army of Philippines asfounded in 1899. They were organized to secure rights and benefits for veterans of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and the Philippines War (1899-1902).

The American Legion was formed in 1919 and is the largest veterans’ organization in the United States.

American Legion Post 54 is located at 403 E. Bridge Avenue in Saratoga and hosts an annual Veterans’ Day Dinner at their post. James Olguin is the commander and Joe Parsons is the adjutant of the post.

Phil Welsh’s military career spans from 1974 to 2010, serving in Vietnam to an assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Welsh joined the Navy at the age of 18 after living in Durango, Colorado all of his life. He had always had an interest in the Navy and worked on a destroyer. During that time, he was deployed to Vietnam. He served for four years and then got out.