The song of each branch of the U.S. military was played at a Wiscasset Senior Center supper Nov. 11.

Ellie Tracy, wife of Navy veteran Ted Tracy, invited veterans to stand when they heard their branch’s song. The couple’s daughter, Thea Tracy-Dunn, assembled the recordings, her mother said. Tracy-Dunn couldn’t attend the Veterans Day gathering, but sang the Star Spangled Banner on a recording that played later in the program.

Woolwich’s John Kennedy, sitting with wife Edna Kennedy, rose for the Army’s song. He served 20 years in aviation, repairing the electronics on helicopters and planes. Attendees applauded as he and others took their turns standing.

Asked afterward what he was feeling, Kennedy said: “Pride.”

It was his third Veterans Day event that day, beginning with American Legion Post 54’s service at Wiscasset’s municipal building. In Bath later that morning, he helped dedicate a new memorial for veterans.

“It really came out nice,” he said about the memorial installed off Washington Street.

Back in Wiscasset for the supper at the senior center, Kennedy received an award honoring his service. American Legion Area 3 Commander Steve Jarrett of Wiscasset gave out certificates and other awards to veterans whose collective service spanned from World War II to the Gulf War. William Cossette Jr., commander of American Legion Post 54 in Wiscasset, joined him in handing out the awards.

Area 3 covers Lincoln, Sagadahoc and Knox counties. It is currently raising money for a platform on which Knox Museum in Thomaston will exhibit the Moving Wall, a 250-foot-long, L-shaped, half-scale version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., American Legion officers said. The exhibit is planned for 2016. The Legion had informational cards about it at the supper.

Post 54 member Dale Skillin said he hopes to be in one of the exhibit’s escort vehicles; and he hopes a crowd will gather at the veterans wall at the Wiscasset municipal building when the vehicles pass through town. A date and time will be announced, he said.

The event the senior center put on showed that people still understand the point of Veterans Day, to honor the veterans, Skillin said.

A slide show of wartime photos played throughout the event. Larry Clark, who served in the Navy from 1959 to 1979, made the slide show. He just felt like doing it, he said.

The Veterans Day program was a good idea, Clark said.

The center’s members wanted to do it because veterans deserve to be recognized, Arlene Polewarczyk, chairman of the center’s board, said. Her family has been involved in the military since the Spanish-American War.

America’s Vietnam War veterans should be treated with the honor they did not receive when they came home, she said. “That was a whole different ball game. They were spat on.”

Whether someone was drafted or they volunteered, in wartime or peacetime, they have kept America free, Polewarczyk said.

“We’re all able to be here because of them.”