Legion, Veterans Committee holding Memorial Day programs
The Anderson American Legion Post 318 and Anderson Township Veterans Memorial Committee honor fallen veterans with special Memorial Day programs.
Legion, Veterans Committee holding Memorial Day programs The Anderson American Legion Post 318 and Anderson Township Veterans Memorial Committee honor fallen veterans with special Memorial Day programs. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/27jWyTy
Sheila A. Vilvens, svilvens@communitypress.com Published 11:43 a.m. ET May 13, 2016
American Legion Post 318's Rifle Squad waits at a local cemetery during a Memorial Day ceremony.(Photo: Provided)
The legion continues its longstanding tradition of honoring the men and women who have given their all for the country by conducting memorial ceremonies at nine local cemeteries Monday, May 30.
Brief memorials will be held at each cemetery which will include the post's Color Guard, the placing of small American flags and flowers on the representative veteran's graves, the firing of a three-round volley salute to the dead by the post's Rifle Squad, and playing of taps.
The estimated schedule for the cemetery ceremonies is:
• 8:40 a.m. - Mt. Moriah Cemetery (Mt. Moriah Drive);
• 9:05 a.m. - Veterans Park (Forest Road);
• 9:20 a.m. - Asbury Cemetery (Forest Road @ Asbury);
• 9:35 a.m. - Old Five Mile Chapel Cemetery (Five Mile Road);
• 10:00 a.m. - Hillcrest Cemetery (Sutton Road);
• 10:15 a.m. - Salem Community Church Cemetery (Salem & Sutton);
• 10:35 a.m. - Guardian Angels Cemetery (Beechmont @ Salem);
• 10:55 a.m. - Wolfangel Cemetery (Deaconsbench Drive);
• 11:15 a.m. - Clough Baptist Cemetery (Bridges Road @ Clough).
The remembrances of fallen veterans continues at Anderson Center at 11:45 a.m. where the Anderson Veterans Memorial Committee hosts its annual Memorial Day ceremony.
This year's speaker is Chris Cravens, the president of Tier 2 Defense and also a national director of candidate acquisition for RecruitMilitary. Cravens is a former NCIS federal investigator and served eight years on active duty as an infantry Marine.
Included in the solemn remembrance of veterans is the reading of names of deceased members of the armed forces. Sign in by 11:45 a.m. if you wish to have your loved one's name read during the ceremony. The ceremony starts at noon.
A remembrance wreath will be released from the weir on Anderson Lake and a three-volley rifle salute will be given over the lake, with taps echoed from the overlook. The event will be hosted rain or shine.
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