Senator Gillibrand to Appear in Hartsdale at 2 pm on Wednesday

United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will speak at the annual Veterans Day ceremony at DeSanti Park, across from the Hartsdale train station on Wednesday, November 11th at 2 PM. Senator Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been a vocal advocate for strengthening America's armed services, national security and military readiness.

The Senator will speak at the park that will be enhanced next year and turned into a Veterans Memorial park honoring the contributions of local heroes. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2016 for a Veterans Memorial Park opposite the Hartsdale train station.

The town will also air the living history interviews of approximately 150 veterans. on public access TV (channels 76 cablevision and 35 Verizon Fios) starting Tuesday night at 9:30 pm.

Kirsten Gillibrand was sworn in as United States Senator from New York in January 2009 and she was elected for a six-year term in November, 2012. Prior to serving in the Senate, Gillibrand served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York's 20th Congressional District, which spanned 10 counties in upstate New York.

Throughout her time in Congress, Senator Gillibrand has been committed to open and honest government. When she was first elected, she pledged to bring unprecedented transparency and access to her post. She became the first Member of Congress to post her official public schedule, personal financial disclosure, and federal earmark requests online. The New York Times called Gillibrand's commitment to transparency a "quiet touch of revolution" in Washington, and The Sunlight Foundation, the leading advocacy organization dedicated to making government more open and transparent, praised Senator Gillibrand as a pioneer for her work.

In 2012, Senator Gillibrand became the first Senator in history to publish her personal tax returns for every year she has served in office on her own website, and led the effort to pass the STOCK Act, legislation to make insider trading by members of Congress illegal, A Washington Post report hailed the STOCK Act as the "most substantial debate on congressional ethics in nearly five years."

In the U.S. Senate, Senator Gillibrand was advocated to repeal the "Don't Ask Don't Tell," policy that banned gays from serving openly in the military, and to provide health care and compensation to the 9/11 first responders and community survivors who assisted at Ground Zero. The Daily Beast named her as one of the "150 Women Who Shake the World."

From her seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gillibrand has supported strengthening America's armed services, national security and military readiness. In 2013, as chair of the sub-committee on personnel, she held the first Senate hearing on the issue of sexual assault in the military in almost a decade. Gillibrand went on to lead the fight in reforming how the military handles sexual assault cases.

In April 2014, Time Magazine named Gillibrand as one of the "100 Most Influential People In The World."