Booz Allen Honors Our Military with Veterans Day Celebrations

Booz Allen's First Veteran
Edwin Booz - World War I
 

Newman Auditorium, Booz Allen’s McLean campus and live webcast; Local PBS TV stations.

Events:

• Booz Allen Hamilton Veterans Day Celebration
• Maryland Public Television’s “America’s Veterans: A Musical Tribute 2011”

Booz Allen Veterans Day Celebration

Newman Auditorium, Booz Allen’s McLean campus and live webcast.

A firmwide celebration in honor of our veterans and in celebration of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Birthday, featuring:

• Speaker SFC Jarrett Jongema, who served for eleven years on active duty prior to being seriously injured in 2004 when a suicide car bomber detonated more than 500 pounds of explosives next to his vehicle in Iraq. After being brought back to life six times, Jongema went through the rehabilitation process at Walter Reed hospital and returned to Active Duty.
• A panel of Booz Allen partners will honor veterans of the United States Armed Forces and lead in celebrating the birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps
• Guest of Honor Lt. Gen Keith Stalder (Ret.), USMC
• Suits for Vets clothing drive: Accepting gently used clothing and gift cards for veterans

Maryland Public Television’s “America’s Veterans: A Musical Tribute 2011”

Nationwide

National Television Premiere: November 10, 2011 at 8:30 p.m. on PBS – check local listings

Booz Allen will underwrite Maryland Public Television’s presentation of “America’s Veterans: A Musical Tribute 2011,” a musical salute to the men and women who have served with honor and courage in the United States Armed Forces.
Led by the United States Air Force Band, the concert includes performances by Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, country singer Jo Dee Messina, Grammy and Emmy award-winning jazz trumpeter and pianist Arturo Sandoval, and So You Think You Can Dance winner Sabra Johnson. The hour-long televised special, filmed at the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland, will feature moving tributes to heroes from all five branches of the military. Among the honorees seated in the audience will be Medal of Honor recipient Col. George “Bud” Day, who served in World War II and the Korean War and survived more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.