A salute to Castle Valley veterans

By the time this edition of The Times-Independent arrives in your mailbox, the Fourth Annual Castle Valley Veterans Day event will be history. Dave and Sue Frey have hosted and organized this special event for the past four years to thank the brave men and women who have served our country in the United States military. Dave himself is a U.S. Army Airborne paratrooper. Ron Drake This year’s event followed the theme of the previous successful Veterans Day’s celebrations with a short flag-raising ceremony and program with a moment of silence at exactly 11:11 a.m. The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marks the exact moment that an armistice took effect, ending the fighting on the western front of World War I on Nov. 11, 1918. Although signed earlier in the morning fat about 5 near Compiegne, France, the agreement set 11 a.m. as the official time for the ceasefire to allow orders to reach the front lines.

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