 Oh, say can't we still breath at the twilight's feeling? Good morning and Happy Veterans Day. Father God, today on this Veterans Day, I pause to give you honor for those who are serving and have served this nation at an extraordinary cost of sacrifice for us, for our families and our friends. I honor you for enabling us to utilize our endowed gifts and abilities and efforts to the end. Others may enjoy a measure of peace because of our willingness. The others might thrive because of our willingness to serve. Father God, by your gracious hand, I pray you honor our service through your own. I ask you to bless the men and women at arms with needed healing from the wounds we may carry that we may flourish according to your design and your mission. May we have an ongoing sense of your kind, gracious, guiding, and wise empathy, though sometimes we are misunderstood. May we know your wholeness in our fractures. May we know your righteousness in our shortcomings. May we know your clarity in our periodic confusion. Through your good spirit, may our days be imprinted with a sense of your nearness and provision. I pray you grant us your specialized endurance to continue to serve the peace that passes all understanding and energy to live mirroring your greatness through service. Our enduring joy through your son Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Thank you, Sr. Mattailer, for that beautiful rendition and chaplain Shelton for that heartfelt prayer. I'm Staff Sergeant Bryant Nicholas Bowens from the 42nd Security Force Squadron. And I would like to welcome you to today's ceremony as we pray tribute and honor to the Mendenvano Westchester Maxwell Gunner Air Force Base Historian, the Honorable Stephen L. Reed, Mayor of Montgomery, the Commander and President Air University Lieutenant General James B. Hacker, and the Command Chief, Chief Master Sergeant Tamar Dennis, the Vice Commander 42nd Air Base Wing Colonel Jeremy Reed, and his Wingman Command Chief, Chief Master Sergeant Mike Morgan. Lastly, but certainly not least, we would like to welcome all community leaders, commanders, commandants, senior leaders, directors, chiefs, first sergeants, supervisors, all of America's past and present soldiers, airmen, sailors, Coast Guardsmen, Marines, and members of the Space Force. At this time, would Chief Morgan please come forward to provide opening remarks? Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. General Hacker, it's an honor to be here today and have the opportunity to recognize and honor the men and women who defend this nation before me and alongside me as we come together to remember and memorialize the service and sacrifice of our nation's best and most courageous. I would like to take a moment to acknowledge any who have lost a loved one in the line of duty for our country. No words of condolence can begin to adequately console a survivor's grief. We hold their memories in our hearts years after we have lost them. We think of their courage as an inspiration, pushing us to be our best each day, taking solace in the knowledge that they are looking down with pride at the deeds done in their memory. Now, in my office in 18, representatives of France, Britain, and Germany met in a railcar to sign an armistice ending World War I or the Great War, as it was known at that time. The ceasefire took effect at 11 a.m. Up and down the trenches, it climbed slowly out of the earthworks. Some danced, some cheered, some cried for joy, others stood, merely numbed, or had left some 9 million soldiers dead and another 21 million wounded, with much of Europe laying in ruins. Finally, with the armistice, it was all quiet on the western front. For many years, November 11 was known as Armistice Day to honor those who fought in World War I. In 1954, Congress changed the name to Veterans Day to recognize all known soldiers in Arlington National Cemetery. But Veterans Day honors more than the dead. Memorial Day, observed in May, is for remembering soldiers who lost their lives in the service of their country. Veterans Day is set aside to honor and thank all who served and continue to serve in the U.S. Armistice. You're saccharine here today, and for taking time to pause and honor. Thank you, Chief Morgan. At this time, I will now wish Shiner. Dr. Wish Shiner, the floor is yours. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, on the front, and the war to end all wars can't stop.