When Paul Wright graduated from Ferndale High School in 2002, he knew he was headed to the Navy instead of college, where many of his fellow graduates were going. But after spending four years in the military, most of it stationed on an aircraft carrier off Japan, and discovering the financial benefits available to him for his service, he thought "it would be stupid" not to give college a shot. "I would have gone to work," the Western Washington University student and Veteran Outreach Center employee said. "But I had money that just gets deleted, it just goes away if you don't use it.

Western students, faculty and staff and community members celebrated Veterans Day at a 10:30 a.m. ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 10 in the Viking Union Multipurpose Room. A reception immediately followed the ceremony.

The ceremony was sponsored by the Veterans Outreach Center, and the reception was sponsored by the President’s Office.