Wayland Town Crier 11/7/13: Keynote speaker picked for Wayland Veterans Day event. When Peter Gossels arrived in America in September of 1941 as an 11-year-old Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, he was well aware of the series of miracles that had saved his life and that of his younger brother Werner and, even at that tender age, vowed to do what he could for his new country. Details on the complete Veterans’ Day Program are online here.