The James Monroe High School/Monroe County Technical Center (JMHS/MCTC) Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corp (JROTC) Battalion hosted a welcome home ceremony for Vietnam Veterans on 17 April 2015 at the JMHS football stadium. The West Virginia Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America set up its mobile Memorial Wall at the event, and the Maverick Battalion conducted a formal military review. The Wall remained set up all day, and cadets from the Maverick Battalion provided an honor guard for it. Approximately fifty Vietnam Veterans and their families attended the ceremony and viewed the wall to pay tribute to those who displayed an uncommon degree of selfless service to our country. In addition, several hundred members of the JMHS student body were present. The West Virginia Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America generously gave the proceeds from their donation box to support Operation Maverick Stampede, the JMHS/MCTC JROTC trip to Normandy, France to march in the Memorial D-Day Parade. The Maverick Battalion hopes to make this an annual event.
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