Riggs Theater Hosts Veteran’s Day Program

Riggs Theater Hosts Veteran’s Day Program

PIERRE — Dozens of service veterans, students and community members filled the T-F Riggs Theater Thursday for the annual Veteran’s Day program. Guest speaker John Moisan says there was a time when he shied away from being a veteran as he watched the fall of Siagon from his Fort Pierre home…

It wasn’t until his work volunteering to establish many of the Capitol Lake war memorials that he felt he could call himself a veteran again…

Moisan told the students in attendance that veterans are important because to many nations hate the freedom Americans enjoy…

The program included music performed by the Capital City Band and Riggs Choir.