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| Glenn McDuffie, The Kissing Sailor, at the 2007 COM Veterans Day Celebration in COM Library |
College of the Mainland honors our Veterans and has celebrated Veteran’s Day since 2000. Veterans from the community and across the nation have come and shared their military experience to audiences at COM. See our complete collection of photos, Veterans @ COM.
Some of our guests have been:
2004 Lt. Col. Mimi Friel USAF (Ret.), “Saluting Women in Service and Support.”
2005 Michael Kloss, Veterans Administration USMC Veteran, USAF Reservist, “History of the G. I. Bill.”
2007 Santa Fe resident and Iwo Jima veteran Ivan Hammond.
2007 Houstonian Glenn McDuffie, the famous kissing sailor in the 1945 V-J Day photo in Times Square.
2008 Native American speaker Anna Edwards who discussed Native American culture and service to country.
2010 Col. Christopher W. Sallese, District Engineer and Commanding Office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Galveston.
2010 Lieutenant Junior Grade Michael Gibson of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
2012 David Caldwell, of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
2012 COM student Milton Price shared his perspective as a veteran.More COM History More See all currently available COM History photos or go to our COM History LibGuide for more COM History.
Let Us Know!
We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to help us identify events or individuals in our photos. Just make sure to include the URL (web address) of the photo when sending information. Please contact Tillie Henson at (409) 933-8205 or email Thenson@com.edu.
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