ESCANABA — Students of the Bay College Civics Corps will host their second-annual Veterans Speak event from 7 to 9 p.m. Eastern time Monday, Nov. 27.

Bay College Civics Corps continues its partnership with the Great Lakes Peace Center and Waging Dialogue in this work. This year there is an additional partnership with the American Legion of the Upper Peninsula and American Merchant Marine veterans.

Veterans Speak will be virtual and will include notables from the U.S. Merchant Marine and branches of the U.S. military. Veterans of different ages and backgrounds will share their experiences and discuss what serving the country has meant.

Email June Klees at kleesj@baycollege.edu for the Zoom link.

Dave Yoho will provide the keynote address. Yoho served as a Merchant Marine engine room crewman in World War II. After the war, he went on to become a motivational speaker and businessman. He has appeared on “The Tonight Show” and has been invited to the White House on multiple occasions.

Panelists include:

— Capt. Hugh Stephens, who served in the Deck Department in WWII, surviving combat situations against enemy U-boats. He is one of the last living WWII mariners who experienced action at sea. Stephens continued to serve for many years before becoming a maritime instructor.

— Burley Smith, who is the last surviving crew member of the S/S Meredith Victory during the Korean War Hungnam evacuation. The Meredith Victory transported 14,000 refugees, as enemy forces surrounded the port of Hungnam. This was the largest humanitarian rescue ever by ship.

— Doug Swayer, who served in the Navy for six years, leaving with an E-4 rank. Joining when he was 17, he was an aviation structural mechanic, AM.

— Jan Lipinski, who was an army nurse during the Vietnam War, which opened her path to a career in the medical field. She currently serves as the Upper Peninsula membership director of the non-partisan American Legion Department of Michigan.

— Chris Cooper, who served for two years in the Navy, leaving with an E-3 rank. He was a pattern maker on a repair ship, PM3.

— Capt. Sherri Hickman, a U.S. Merchant Marine ship pilot. She is a pioneer in being among a handful of women to be the first generation of female ship pilots, considered as the highest attainable position in the Merchant Marine.

— Brandon Templeton, who served in the Army National Guard for eight years, leaving with an E-4 rank.

— Daven Bosma, who served in the Army National Guard for 10 years in the 91 Bravo division, leaving with an E-5 rank. He joined the military at his grandfather’s request and became a wheel mechanic, serving in Afghanistan in the early 2000s.