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QC Honors Veterans

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the National Cemetery on Arsenal Island
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Hero Street in Silvis

Veterans Day will be celebrated in the Quad Cities on Saturday.

- Hero Street in Silvis will host its annual program, beginning at 10 am. 

- Rock Island alderman Dylan Parker and local veterans will meet at the World War I Memorial, along 18th Avenue at Reservoir Park, at 11 am to honor victims of that war, and all veterans.

 
- the National Cemetery on Arsenal Island will hold its annual ceremony at 1 pm. The keynote speaker will be the commanding general of the Army Sustainment Command, Major General Duane Gamble. 

- Bettendorf will host its annual ceremony at 2 pm in Veterans Memorial Park, with guest speaker Colonel Bradley Cook from the Rock Island Arsenal.

- and the Tri-City Jewish Center in Rock Island will host a Veterans Day Service at 6 pm. It will include a showing of the film "True Honor" which tells the story of Jewish soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.