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Featuring the following scheduled events!
Music Prelude, by the Community Band, Mr. Dell
Holt, band Director (Lt.Col - US Army-Ret.)
Welcome, Mr. Chip Ellis, Mayor of Clinton.
Opening Remarks, Mr. Keith Wingad, Master of
Ceremony Iraq Desert Storm (Major Us Army)
Presentation of Colors, Ladies Auxiliary VFW Color
Guard, Karen Smorol Director.
Star Spangled Rhapsody, Community Band and Choral
Ensemble. Featured Speakers,
General Hugh Overholt, (Major General US Army Ret.) Bill Lefler, (Major
General US Army Ret.), Harley Swenson, WWII, European Campaign (Private
US Army), Charles Graham, POE WWII, Pacific Campaign (Master Sgt.-US Air
Force-Ret.), James Clark, Korean War, Korean Conflict (Master Sgt. -US
Army Ret.) Don Richardson, Vietnam War, South East Asia Campaign, (Sp,
1st Class-US Army), Tim Adams, Desert Storm, Iraq Campaign, (Staff
Sgt.-US Air Force), Len Bradford, Iraqi Freedom, Iraq Campaign, (Staff
Sgt.-Ark. Natl. Guard). Taps
- Andrew Treece Clinton High School band Member
Echo - John Eaton Community Band Member..
Mayor Chip Ellis welcomed everyone!!!
The Community Band and Choral Ensemble were
excellent!!!
Featured Veteran Speakers pictured above!!!
There was lots of AMERICAN MUSCLE at this event!!!
The beautiful Main Street Clinton banners were
bright and beautiful, adding the the wonderful Memorial Day event,
hanging off every light pole down Main street!!!!
The Ladies Auxiliary Color Guard did the
Presentation of Colors, which was magnificent!!!
"The solider, above all other men, is required to
practice the greatest act of religious training -- sacrifice.
In battle and in the face of danger and death, he
discloses those divine attributes which his maker gave when he created
man in his own image. No
physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of the Divine
help which alone can sustain him.
However horrible the incidents or war ma be, the
solider who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country
is the noblest development of mankind."
By: General Douglas McArthur
"The world has turned over many times since I took
the oath ion the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long
since vanished, but still I remember the refrain of one of the most
popular barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that
old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
And like the old solider of that ballad, I now
close my military career and just fade away, an old solider who tried to
do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-by."
Also By: General Douglas McArthur,
Clinton EAST Lab Class of 2006 sends thanks to all
the veterans!!!
Pictured left under the orange and blue umbrella
and at far right students directed by Dwight Hutto recorded the event!!!
Briana Bradley was one of the students that came
up with the idea for the memorial, raised the money and saw the project
through to the end:) |
