 In honor of Veterans Day, Thacker Memorial Funeral Home held their annual Veterans Day Remembrance Celebration at Annie Young Cemetery in Pikeville on Thursday morning. Mountain Top News was in attendance in order to pay our respects to all those veterans who have sacrificed so much for both our country and our freedom. So at this time, David Taylor is going to come up and serenade us with God Bless the USA. For many Americans, Veterans Day is an important holiday meant to celebrate the brave people who have served in the armed forces for our country. The same is true for Chase and Raleigh Wells of Thacker Memorial Funeral Home, who have hosted the Remembrance Celebration in honor of those individuals for the past few years. We just appreciate everybody coming out today. We had a big crowd, weather was great. We want to thank our guest speaker from the state capitol, Brother Lee Watts. We want to thank Richard Meek and Donnie Hall and Tommy England. We really appreciate everybody coming today and it was a great event. I also want to thank all of our employees. It takes a lot to pull this off and we're lucky enough to have a good staff that helps us out to pull everything off. So we really appreciate them. This is something small we can do. We can't never do enough to show our appreciation but this is a little something that we try to do. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute, we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. Among those addressing the crowd at Thursday's ceremony was Lee Watts, volunteer chaplain to the Kentucky State Capitol. We caught up with Watts after the event to ask, as a veteran himself, what this day means to him. Thacker Memorial hosts this event every year and every year it touches the heart and it just reminds us the price that was paid by our veterans. It's a chance to honor them and it's such a joy to be a part of it every year. I served in Iraq but Veterans Day to me reminds me of the Vietnam veterans. When I came home from Baghdad, I came home to a hero's welcome. Those men did not and because of what they went through coming home is the reason that me and my comrades in arms were able to come home to a hero's welcome. It's the one that they should have had. To all of our veterans, thank you for your service. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joshua Slung.