Irving Rodriguez, U.S. Marine Corps veteran (from left); Ivan Rodriguez, U.S. Army veteran; Roy Champion, U.S. Army veteran; Jacqueline Lopez, veteran family member; Gabriel Carrizales, U.S. Navy veteran; Elda Arriaga, assistant director of the Military and Veteran Success Center; Javier Badillo, academic adviser for MVSC; Edgar Vasquez, U.S. Air Force veteran; William Pabon, U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Student Veterans of America president; and, Raymundo Solis, U.S. Marine Corps veteran and SVA sergeant-at-arms, attend the UTRGV Veterans Day ceremony in the University Ballroom on the Edinburg campus. AALIYAH GARZA/THE RIDER PHOTOS
Gerardo Lopez, who served in the U.S. Army as a sergeant first class; his daughter, UTRGV senior criminal justice major Jacqueline Lopez; and Elda Arriaga, assistant director of the Military and Veteran Success Center, are shown at UTRGV’s Veterans Day ceremony last Wednesday on the Edinburg campus.
Attendees enjoyed food served at the UTRGV Veterans Day ceremony, which took place last Wednesday in the University Ballroom on the Edinburg campus.