GEORGETOWN, Del.- Veterans were honored with a banquet at the CHEER community center Friday evening.
Veterans ate for free during a night filled with music, ceremonial candle lighting and dancing.
This is the 16th year this banquet was held at the community center in Georgetown. CHEER Board of Directors president and Korean War veteran Walter Koopman says Veterans Day is about more than saying thanks.
"We try to get together and remember those who cannot be with us," he said. "That's the important thing. We have a lot of POWs and MIAs that are still unaccounted for from all the way back to World War One."
The banquet hosted veterans from every branch of the military- including members of the Tuskagee Airmen.
Brig. Gen. Ernest G. Talbert says his service in the Air Force helped make him who he is today.
"(It was) The camaraderie and the sharing of values that allowed somebody like me, a young boy from Arkansas, to become best friends with rednecks from Georgia, cowboys from Saint Joe, Missouri, and Dallas, Texas," he said.
Talbert also epressed the need to support veterans when they come back home.
