The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cornell-veterans/)
A new resolution passed by the Graduate Students and Professionals Assembly, the Student Assembly and the University Assembly advocates making Veteran’s Day a University holiday.
In the rotunda of Anabel Taylor Hall, in solemn light, stands Cornell University’s most famous war memorial. It honors over 500 Cornellians who died in World War II and scores more who died in Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf and other conflicts — “so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom,” as its gilded Abraham Lincoln quote reads. Two names were added to the memorial recently: Maj. Richard Gannon ’95 and Capt. George Wood ’93, who died in the war in Iraq. What do we owe these Cornellians, who have seen the battlefields of the past and present?