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Veterans Day 2013 in Danvers
This year's celebration was held at the Avon Road elementary school in order to dedicate a new monument that was recently installed at the school's athletic fields.
A large crowd of Danvers residents, veterans, scouts and town officials gathered at the Thorpe School Monday morning for the town's annual Veterans Day ceremony.
Rev. Michael Doyle of St. Mary of the Annunciation Church and a U.S. Naval Reserve Chaplain offered the invocation and benediction, the Danvers High School Chamber Singers performed the national anthem and "God Bless America" and the Danvers Girl Scouts also sang "You're a Grand Old Flag."
The guest speaker for the program was Danvers native and retired U.S. Army veteran Charles Gould. Gould graduated from Danvers High, enlisted in the Army after college and served in Bosnia from 1996-1997 and later in Iraq with the National Guard from 2004-2005.
He and his wife Joann live in Peabody and Gould is the commander of American Legion Post 180, Danvers and a member of VFW Post 2359, Danvers.
Once the regular program concluded Monday, a new monument was dedicated that declares the athletic fields next to the school as Danvers Veterans Memorial Fields.
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