Cenotaph Ceremony for Medal of Honor Recipient 1st Lt. Gary Lee Miller
Venue: War Memorial Chapel (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, November 6, 2020
Time: 3:00 - 3:30 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
Virginia Tech presents a Cenotaph Ceremony for Medal of Honor Recipient 1st Lt. Gary Lee Miller on Friday, November 6, 2020 at the Pylons at thw War Memorial on the campus of Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech will honor its eighth Medal of Honor recipient, 1st Lt. Gary Lee Miller, during a small ceremony. During the event, the Corps of Cadets Gregory Guard will perform a rifle salute and buglers will play Echo Taps. Expect three volleys of shots.

A unit commander in the U.S. Army, Miller died from wounds he received after smothering an enemy grenade to save the men he was leading in South Vietnam on Feb. 16, 1969. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor, but his connection to Virginia Tech remained mostly unknown.

A resident of Covington, Virginia, Miller attended Clifton Forge-Covington Community College during a period when it was designated a branch of Virginia Tech. Today, is it Dabney S. Lancaster Community College.

Protocol for inclusion on the cenotaph is for the Medal of Honor recipient to be an alumnus, whether a graduate or not.

The university will livestream the ceremony on its YouTube page at https://youtube.com/virginiatech.

For more information, visit: https://vtnews.vt.edu/notices/corps-cenotaph.html or email shaybar@vt.edu.

Disclaimer: NextThreeDays relies on restaurants and venues to keep us up-to-date as their pricing and weekly specials change. If this special/event is incorrect, please email info@NextThreeDays.com with "Incorrect Special/Event" in the subject line and a description of the issue. Thanks for your help!

Want to hear the latest on what's happening with local events in the New River Valley?
Click here to Sign-up for our Email Newsletter.

Have an event you want to Submit on NextThreeDays? Click here for our Submit Event Form.

And join NextThreeDays on Facebook and Twitter.