Local Veterans
Here at the Hickory Aviation Museum, one of our most important missions involves local veterans of all branches of service.This mission has three main goals-
1 - Honor and express our gratitude to veterans for the sacrifices they have made
2 - Increase awareness and education about those sacrifices for all citizens of the Hickory area
3- Preserve the stories, experiences, and artifacts that veterans can share, so that we can all understand those experiences in the context of our own lives for many more years to come.
We work to fulfil those goals in several ways. First, we have an annual ceremony each Veteran's Day. Click on a year to see pictures of the 2008 or 2007 Veteran's Day ceremonies.
Second, we formally invite all veterans to the museum on the first Saturday of each month for complimentary coffee and donuts. If you have a veteran in your family and you've already heard his or her stories a few times, bring him or her out to the museum, because we would like to hear them too!
Finally, we informally invite all veterans to come to the museum during any open hours. We can always use more volunteers for providing aircraft tours or working in the gift shop, but we are also glad to have veterans of the military on hand just to talk and share stories.
If you are ready to meet some of our regular visitors, stop by the museum, or click here to read more.
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