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Memorial Day
Woodstock, NY 2010
Memorial Day 2011On behalf of
Woodstock’s American Legion Post 1026, I extend my heartfelt thanks to
the hundreds of community residents, families, and friends who came out
to be part of our annual Memorial Day Parade, and Remembrance
Service. As the
American Legion Honor Guard, and legion
members marched up Mill Hill Road, we were warmly recognized by a truly
enthusiastic crowd of parade watchers. This left no doubt in anyone’s
mind that, at that moment, we were all united as Americans, honoring
our departed veterans. While it takes many to organize and
execute an event such as this, there are those individuals who must be
recognized for their dedicated efforts of labor, love, and
participation. First and foremost, we recognize and commend our post
chaplain,
Kevin Verpent, for once again organizing this event. We
also commend our master of ceremonies, Terry Breitenstein
for another superb job. We also thank members of
our auxiliary and Sons of the American Legion for
their role in this parade.
Thanks also to our town
supervisor, Jeff Moran, town councilperson Terrie Rosenblum,
and county legislator, Don Gregorius and Brian Shapiro for
their eloquent and inspiring words.
A special
recognition goes to a very adorable three year old, Abby Hopf, for her
debut performance at our memorial service singing, without any
mistakes, “God Bless America.” And a special thanks once again to the
“voice of Woodstock’s Little League,” Abbe Graber. I would also like to
thank and recognize our bag pipers, with special praise to Peggy
Mulligan, who played a solo of “amazing grace.” Of course we thank our
very own Onteora Marching Band for its participation and another banner
performance. I would also like to recognize and thank Kevin
Christofora, president of the Woodstock Little League, as well as
the many little leaguers, their families, and friends for participating
in our parade, and for all those individuals behind the
scenes who made this parade one of Woodstock’s most memorable events, I thank you.
Written by Trustee Don Haberski Sr.
article courtesy of The Woodstock Times
“Freedom is
not free”
Memorial Day Parade Announcement
Woodstock, New York
May 30th 2011 The
Annual Woodstock American Legion Memorial Day Parade
Will be held Monday May 30th, 2011. Assembly will be at the
Woodstock Playhouse parking grounds. Units participating in the
Parade should begin arriving at 11:00am. The Parade will kick off
At 12:00 noon and proceed up Mill Hill Road, to Rock City Road, and
stop shortly at the Woodstock Cemetery. After a return down Rock City
Road to Tinker Street, continuing
Through the Village to its Neher Street end.
Anyone interested in Participating in the parade must first be cleared
by the American Legion Parade Coordinator. The Parade
Coordinator will arrange the line up and line march. All Parade
participants are invited to the post for refreshments at the conclusion
of the Parade.
Please Contact Parade Coordinator Kevin Verpent
At (845)532-2775 or
Call the Post at (845)679-8401 On May 14th 2011 the WLL assisted the American legion with placing flags at Woodstock Cemetery in honor of Memorial day.
The ballplayers who assisted were:
Finnegan Pike
Ronan Pike
Jonah Katz
Maria Blas-Perez
Also
a special thanks to WLL President Kevin Christfora, Umpire Coordinator
Lee Johnson, American Legion Post 1026 Historian Varick Graver and the
other Legionnaires who assisted!
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Taps as played on the bugle by
the United States
Army Band
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Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Dream of battled fields no more.
Days of danger, nights of waking. -Sir Walter Scott
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Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington Mansion and 200 acres of
ground immediately surrounding it were designated officially as a
military cemetery June 15, 1864, by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. More than 300,000 people are buried at
Arlington Cemetery.
Veterans
from all the nation's wars are buried in the cemetery, from the
American Revolution through the Iraq and Afghanistan. Pre-Civil War
dead were reinterred after 1900.
The Tomb of the Unknowns is
guarded by the U.S. Army 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The 3rd U.S.
Infantry (The Old Guard) began guarding the Tomb April 6, 1948.
Arlington
National Cemetery Website
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World War II Memorial
The World War II Memorial honors the 16
million who served in
the armed forces of the U.S., the more than 400,000 who died, and all
who supported the war effort from home. Symbolic of the defining event
of the 20th Century, the memorial is a monument to the spirit,
sacrifice, and commitment of the American people. The Second World War
is the only 20th Century event commemorated on the National Mall’s
central axis.
The World War II Memorial Website
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Korean War Veterans Memorial
This Korean War Memorial picture shows the
nearby Lincoln Memorial on the Mall.
The 19 stainless-steel statues at the Korean
War Veterans Memorial depict fighting men on patrol. They represent the
1.5 million Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force men and women who
fought in the war.
The Memorial was dedicated on July 27, 1995,
the 42nd anniversary of the armistice that ended the Korean War.
Korean War Veterans Memorial Website
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Photo Source: US Government
Deliberately setting aside the controversies
of the war, the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial honors the men and women who served when their Nation
called upon them. The designer, Maya Lin, felt that “the politics had
eclipsed the veterans, their service and their lives.” She kept the
design elegantly simple to “allow everyone to respond and remember.” With
the addition of six names added in 2010 the total is now 58,267 names
listed on the Memorial. Approximately 1200 of these are listed as
missing (MIA's, POW's, and others).
The VietNam Veterans' Memorial
Wall Page
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War on Terror
September 11 Incident
A
number of memorials were raised in the honor of the victims and heroes
of the fateful September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, throughout
America, besides the famous sites such as the World Trade Center,
Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The first memorial was erected
in Tucson, Arizona dedicated to Captain Jack D. Punches, a passenger in
the plane that hit the Pentagon. A sculpture at Los Angeles airport
Theme Building, California, is dedicated to them and depicts a compass
with words and phrases reflecting national rights, visions and ideals.
Another memorial dedicated to the 343 New York City firefighters who
sacrificed their lives while helping the victims is situated at the
Fire Department Training Center in Los Angeles. It is a 23-ft steel
column that was part of the lobby of the World Trade Center.
Other
memorials in California include the one at Pepperdine University,
Malibu dedicated to Flight 93 passenger, Thomas E. Burnett Jr, and at a
school in San Jose dedicated to Captain Jason Dahl, one of the pilots
on United Flight 93 who grew up in the city. In the honor of baseball
fan Matthew Flocco, age 21, the baseball field in Newark, Delaware was
named after him. The life-size statue of CeeCee Lyles, a flight
attendant on board United Airlines flight 93, grace Fort Pierce,
Florida. Burlington, Massachusetts has a brick memorial dedicated to
the three victims from Boston suburbs who were aboard the American
Airlines Flight 11 that struck the World Trade Center. There is a
thirty-three acre farmland memorial too honoring John Ogonowski,
captain of American Airlines Flight 11.
New Jersey has a local
post office in Cranbury named after the former resident Todd Beamer,
the Flight 93 passenger, a bench and flagpole in the Atlantic city
dedicated to Victor Saracini, pilot of United Airlines Flight 175 and a
waterfront memorial in Hoboken, N.J., home to more than 50 people
killed at the World Trade Center across the Hudson River. Many such
memorials have been erected and are planned to be erected in New York,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, DC and Minnesota. Native
Americans of the Lummi Nation gifted 13-ft high totem 'healing poles'
to Shanksville and New York city as a mark of their grief over the
unfortunate incident. Other memorials erected for the victims outside
America are situated in Ethiopia and London, England.
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A poem quoted
by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
in a Memorial Day speech at Harvard in 1895 entitled
"The Soldier's
Faith"
And when the wind in the tree-tops roared,
The soldier asked from the deep dark grave:
"Did the banner flutter then?"
"Not so, my hero," the wind replied.
"The fight is done, but the banner won,
Thy comrades of old have borne it hence,
Have borne it in triumph hence."
Then the soldier spake from the deep dark grave:
"I am content."
Then he heareth the lovers laughing pass,
and the soldier asks once more:
"Are these not the voices of them that love,
That love--and remember me?"
"Not so, my hero," the lovers say,
"We are those that remember not;
For the spring has come and the earth has smiled,
And the dead must be forgot."
Then the soldier spake from the deep dark grave:
"I am content."
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