Schools drop 21-gun salute from Veterans Day events over ‘hearing gunfire’

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – Fears of the sounds of gunfire on campus convinced the Eau Claire Area School District to ban veterans from performing a 21-Gun Salute at most of its schools.

Only Longfellow Elementary allowed veterans to perform the decades old tradition this Veterans Day, but school officials denied the same request from the Eau Claire Patriotic Council for the district’s other schools, WQOW reports.  Read