Hundreds spent Memorial Day in Yuba City at Calvary Christian Center, where the 32nd annual production of "A Grateful Nation Remembers" was being staged.The two-and-a-half-hour ceremony featured a six-panel replica of the Vietnam Wall, a full-scale replica of The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and reenactments of service members in Afghanistan and Vietnam.Active service members and veterans who have served since World War II were called onto the stage to receive an American flag, pin, and applause from the audience.A large-scale memorial was also set up outside. Multiple panels had the names of more than 7,000 men and women in uniform who have died serving since after 9/11. The Beale Air Force Base did a flyover above the memorial. The keynote speaker of Monday's program was Dave Roever.The Purple Heart medal recipient has traveled from Texas for the Yuba City event for 12 years in a row."There's nothing like it in the nation, and I've done them all," he told KCRA 3. "This is the ultimate and perfect place to commemorate because we don't celebrate this. We commemorate it. We don't have a happy Memorial Day. We have a thoughtful, considerate Memorial Day."Roever served in the Navy Special Forces during the Vietnam War. He says he lost 50% of his skin after a grenade blew up next to his head in 1969. He says he has had 62 operations since and has more scheduled.He currently travels across the world speaking to deployed troops."God has changed my life, and I've never had a bad day," he said. "I have difficult days, awkward days, painful days, but no day has ever come out bad because it always turns to good."The vice mayor of Yuba City is a veteran himself and served from 1989 to 1992 during Desert Storm. Dave Shaw says he's been coming to this Memorial Day event for a decade."This is really about honoring those that made the ultimate sacrifice, those that didn't come home to come back to family," he said.(Video below: See more Memorial Day ceremonies across Northern California.)See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app.