Del Tech students take part in ceremony commemorating U.S.-Soviet meeting at the Elbe in WWII

A delegation of students and faculty from Delaware Tech participated in a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery April 25, followed by a reception at the Russian Embassy.

The ceremony commemorated the meeting, for the first time during World War II, of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River in Germany April 25, 1945. The ceremony is held every year and veterans still alive from the first meeting participate, as well younger representatives from the U.S. and Russia.

The Del Tech group had just returned from a trip to Russia.

Shown in the ballroom at the Russian Embassy are in back (l-r) Nicholas Yeager; Jessica Cornwell; Surg Singh; (Prince) Gregory Gagarin, a WWII U.S. Navy veteran whose family built the Trans-Siberian Railroad; Gen. Carl Reddel, U.S. Air Force (retired), chairman of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission (first U.S. officer to ever live and study at Moscow State University); Chris Medykiewicz; Rose Carey; Annette Guerke; Samantha Roche; Col. Frank Cohn (retired), a WWII veteran who was at the Elbe; and Dr. Peter I. Hartsock, U.S. Public Health Service.  In front are Michelle Dean and Kubra Sabirli.