Members of the Military Officers Association of America, Greenville Chapter, decorated a tree for the St. Francis Festival of trees located at the Mariott Greenville on the Parkway. Left to right: Maj. (ret) Raymond Miller, MaryLou Miller, Vallerie Gonzales, 1st Lt. (ret) Brenda Jansons, Col. (ret) Maryann Steinmetz, Col. (ret) William Koehler, and Col. (ret) Stephan Carroll.

Sevier Middle School conducted the 15th Annual Veterans Day Memorial Service on Friday, November 11th, 2011.

Sevier is built on part of the Camp Sevier property.

Camp Sevier was an Army training camp built in 1916, because the U.S. Government needed more training facilities. Camp Sevier covered approximately 2,000 acres in size and covered land from present day Wade Hampton Blvd. to State Park Road, and from Mountain Creek Church Road to Reid School Road.

Located on Grounds of Parisview Baptist Church

The Union Bleachery was one of the leading textile mills in Greenville County from 1902 until it closed its doors in 2003. Most of the mill’s employees lived in the mill village on the hill above the mill off what is now Highway 253 north of Greenville.

Former employees of the mill remember that the village was a close-knit community. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and draft age men went to war, the community shared their joy and grief.

Veterans Day Ceremony at Cleveland Park Vietnam War  Memorial

As darkness fell on the Vietnam War Memorial in Cleveland Park, graying veterans of the Vietnam War, along with their families and a few friends, gathered with members of the Greenville County Vietnamese community to pay tribute to the Greenvillians who gave their lives in defense of freedom for the Vietnamese people.

Greenville Native Received Silver Star for Valor in Battle Featured in “We Were Soldiers Once... And Young”

Bud Alley, a graduate of Greenville High School and Furman University, was speaker at the Woodlawn Funeral Home & Memorial Park Annual Veterans Day Program, Sunday, November 6, 2011.

Alley received his commission as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army through the Furman University ROTC program in 1964. One year later, he would face a test of all that he knew and was able to do in a jungle in Vietnam.

Honors 479  Graduates who Gave Their Lives in Service of Their Country and Three Who Received the Congressional Medal of Honor

Clemson Agricultural College, now Clemson University, has a rich military history beginning with founder Thomas Green Clemson, who served in the Confederate Army.

From it’s beginning through two World Wars, and Korea, Clemson was an all-male military school. Students lived in barracks with their rifles, wore uniforms,  and were organized in military units with student leaders. The purpose was to develop superior military leaders.