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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... AHS senior Katherine Nicoll conducts the Star Spangled Banner during the Veterans Day ceremony at Ballardvale Green Wednesday. REBA SALDANHA/Photo Veterans of all ranks, military branches, and eras of service were shown all kinds of appreciation Wednesday, including cookies and handcrafted cards of thanks.This year’s Veterans Day featured Girl Scout Troop 84141 presented pins and flags to those who served and distributed cards and cookies to all those in attendance at Veterans Day ceremonies on Ballardvale Green. Catarina Morales, 9, a member of Girl Scout Troop 84141, offers a pin and flag to Air Force Lt. Col. (Ret.) Steve Wallingford during Andover’s Veterans Day ceremony Wednesday in Andover. The Scouts made cards, pins, flags and cookies that they distributed to veterans and other attendees of the annual event on Ballardvale Green.

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