Massachusetts former and current military servicemembers flooded the Hall of Flags in the State House to be recognized and honored for their service in an annual Veterans Day tradition Tuesday morning.

“Today is a day of reverence,” said Gov. Maura Healey. “It’s a day of respect. It should also be a day of celebration, I believe, for the willingness of men and women to come forward, over the years, through decades, through centuries, from Massachusetts and around this country, to do something for the greater good. It doesn’t get any better than that.”

State leaders highlighted the service of Massachusetts’s veterans on Tuesday and the work the state has done for those who have served. The holiday marks 107 years since the end of World War I, when the day which would be known as Veterans

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