MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES PLANNED FOR THE ANTELOPE VALLEY.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Memorial Day observances in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley will begin tonight with a candlelight vigil A candelight vigil is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset. Such events are typically held either to protest at the suffering of some marginalized group of people, or in memory of lives lost to some disease, disaster, massacre or other tragedy. at Joshua Memorial Park. Lancaster Vice Mayor Henry Hearns and Lancaster California Highway Patrol highway patrol n. A state law enforcement organization whose police officers patrol the public highways. Capt. Brian M. Smith will be the featured speakers at the ceremony, which will start at 7:30 p.m. in the cemetery, 808 E. Lancaster Blvd. The sponsor is Marine Corps League Detachment 930. This is the sixth year for the Memorial eve observance. Ceremonies are planned for Monday in Lake Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Rosamond, Lancaster and Palmdale. Monday's observances include: --LANCASTER - Services will be held at 10 a.m. May 28 at Joshua Memorial Park, 808 E. Lancaster Blvd., hosted by American Legion American Legion, national association of male and female war veterans, founded (1919) in Paris. Membership is open to veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Post 311 and its Ladies Auxiliary. Keynote speaker will be U.S. Air Force Col. Harry Talbot. The service will include a two-bell ceremony by Fleet Reserve Association 153 and a 21-gun salute by the Blue Eagles Honor Guard. An open potluck will follow the ceremony. --LAKE LOS ANGELES - Lake Los Angeles Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2989 will plant a green ash tree named for Dwight Eisenhower in honor of all who served at home and abroad in World War II. Operation Silent Witness, a national tree-planting ceremony to honor and commemorate World War II veterans, will start at 11 a.m. Monday at the Lake Los Angeles Community Park, 16801 E. Ave. P. Operation Silent Witness is a cooperative effort of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation, American Forests American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens , Wal-Mart and The Scott's Co. --ROSAMOND - Korean War veterans ≈The last U.S. Korean War veteran on active duty was Lt.Col Don Byers, US Army, who retired in 1992
The tribute is part of the eighth annual Memorial Day ceremony hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9657 and American Legion Post 490. The park is on Glendower Street, north of Rosamond Boulevard. The ceremony will also pay tribute to all Desert Storm/Persian Gulf veterans and family members. The national colors and the prisoner of war PRISONER OF WAR. One who has been captured while fighting under the banner of some state. He is a prisoner, although never confined in a prison. 2. In modern times, prisoners are treated with more humanity than formerly; the individual captor has now no flag will be raised by the Marine Color Guard from the 46th Marine Aircraft Group Detachment B at Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. . Featured speaker will be Lt. Col. Alan B. Berg, a senior flight surgeon and commander of the 95th Aero Space Medical Squadron at Edwards. The memorial service will include a 21-gun salute. Lunch will be served at Rosamond Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9657 at 20th Street West and Elray Street following the ceremony. For more information, call Gale Swanson at work, (661) 276-2493, or at home, (661) 256-9306. --PALMDALE - A service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Desert Lawn Memorial Park, 2200 E. Ave. S. Services will include a laying of wreaths by various Veterans organizations, a bell ceremony by Fleet Reserve 153, and a salute to veterans by the Palmdale Veterans Color Guard. Speakers include Palmdale Mayor James Ledford and Air Force Plant 42 commander Lt. Col. Celeo Wright. |
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