Scenes from the 2019 Veterans Day ceremony

Yale’s veteran community was honored during a ceremony at Battell Chapel on Nov. 11.

Kimberly Goff-Crews, secretary and vice president for university life, welcomes attendees.

President Peter Salovey delivers remarks.

The Yale Police Department Color Guard performs the presentation of colors.

The Veterans Day Brass Ensemble plays the National Anthem.

Adrian Bonenberger, a co-chair of the Yale Veterans Network and editor of Yale Medicine Magazine, delivers the invocation. Bonenberger served in the U.S. Army 2005-2012.

Yale College student Moses Cho ’20, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps (2010-2014) delivers remarks.

Melissa Muñoz ’20 plays Taps.

Left to right: Lori Rasile, a National Guard veteran (1995-2003) and member of the Yale Veterans Network Steering Committee; Norma Thompson, a senior lecturer in the humanities, member of the Warrior-Scholar Project Academic Board, and Yale Warrior-Scholar instructor; and Patricia Wei, Yale College’s director of veterans outreach; and Goff-Crews. Rasile, Thompson, and Wei were honored for their work to build and support the Yale veterans community.

Veterans in the crowd rise as the Veterans Day Brass Ensemble plays their service song during a musical salute to men and women of the armed forces.

University Chaplain Sharon Kugler delivers the day’s benediction.

Students in the Eli Whitney Students Program, which accepts undergraduates from non-traditional backgrounds, such as veterans of the armed forces. Cho is at center; Navy veteran Hillary Browning ’20, who delivered remarks at the 2018 Veterans Day ceremony, stands to his right.

The retiring of the colors.