布里格。Gen. Allen Boyette, senior director of NC State’s Energy Systems Administration and the top-ranking officer in the North Carolina National Guard, was the featured speaker Monday morning at the annual NC State ROTC Veteran’s Day run, which began and ended near the Memorial Belltower that commemorates the institution’s fallen World War I alumni and students.
The U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy ROTC units — including some 350 cadets and officers — ran the 2.6-mile course around campus in formation, followed by members of the NC State baseball team and dozens of others who joined in the annual race, which left from the Court of North Carolina and ran parallel to Hillsborough Street, down Dan Allen Drive, by Doak Field at Dail Park, to Cates Avenue and Pullen Road.
In his remarks, Boyette highlighted two NC State alumni who are memorialized in the Belltower, Gaston Dortch (1913) and Ernest Twine (1921), both of whom died while serving with the 30th Infantry Division as they broke the famed Hindenburg Line, Germany’s final defensive position on the Western Front.
两者都是堕落的校友之一，他在钟楼纪念，并被埋葬在法国的索蒙美国公墓。在NC州赢得电气工程学位的31岁的军队资深人士将军，今年早些时候曾访问过墓地，并在记忆中介绍了纪念第三级队伍。
校园周围的日出是NC州军事单位的年度退伍军人日活动。
