UNION — Flag-waving school children sat on the curb while tan-colored Humvees and troop trucks rolled past the red-brick downtown storefronts.
The help provided at a small rehabilitation center in Lexington is vital for a fresh start in life, some of the 13 military veterans staying there said Tuesday.
Among Veterans Day activities today, crowds gathered in downtown Columbia and Union to honor military men and women. Here are some images captured by photographers Tracy Glantz in Columbia and Tim Dominick in Union.
Mary Crum still remembers that April day in 1945 when she and thousands of others gathered at Union Station in Columbia. It was Friday the 13th, by chance, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage the day before in Warm Springs, Ga.