Vice Admiral John C. Cotton of the United States Naval Reserve to Dedicate Holloway Park Veterans Memorial in West Hollywood, Tuesday, November 11, 2003.News Editors WEST HOLLYWOOD West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2003 Keynote speaker Vice Admiral John C. Cotton of the United States Naval Reserve will be among the guest speakers at a Veterans Day ceremony in which the City of West Hollywood will officially dedicate the newly completed Holloway Park Veterans Memorial. Located on the highly traveled intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive, Holloway Park Veterans Memorial will be seen by thousands of motorists and pedestrians on a daily basis. The event will take place on Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11, 2003 at 11 a.m. at the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Holloway Drive. The event is free and open to the public. West Hollywood Councilmember and World War II Army Veteran Sal Guarriello will speak at the event. Other speakers include members of the West Hollywood City Council; Andy Harland, U.S. Air Force Vietnam Veteran; Randy Schecher, President of the Palm Springs Gay Veterans Chapter/American Veterans of Equal Rights; Dave Culmer, United States Marine Corps United States Marine Corps (USMC) Separate military service within the U.S. Department of the Navy (see U.S. Navy), charged with providing marine troops for seizure and defense of advanced bases and with conducting operations on land and in the air in connection with Veteran; and Efrim Kutz, Vice President of the Los Angeles/West Hollywood Association of Russian World War II Veterans. With more than 4200 hours of military flight time under his belt, Vice Admiral Cotton is a graduate of Executive and Reserve Component Programs at the Naval War College, Naval Postgraduate School The Naval Postgraduate School is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy. Located in Monterey, California, it grants primarily master's degrees plus some doctoral degrees to its students, who are mostly active duty officers from U.S. and foreign military services. , National Defense University, Army War College, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, . In October 1996, he became CO Navy Command Center 106 at the Pentagon, and additionally served as an instructor at the Command Leadership School in Newport, Rhode Island Newport is a city in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Providence. It is the home of Naval Station Newport, housing the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and a major United States Navy training center. . In 1995, he received the Vice Admiral Stanley David Griggs "Excellence in Leadership" Memorial Award. After earning his wings in October 1974, he became a third generation pilot, as his father was a Naval Aviator and his grandfather flew with the Lafayette Flying Corps in World War I. Vice Admiral Cotton's personal awards include the Legion of Merit Legion of Merit n. Abbr. LM A U.S. military decoration awarded for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services. , Defense Meritorious Service, Meritorious Service, Navy Commendation and Navy Achievement Medals. Vice Admiral Cotton graduated from the United States Naval Academy United States Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Md.; for training young men and women to be officers of the U.S. navy or marine corps. George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy, founded and opened (1845) it as the Naval School at Annapolis. in June 1973 with a degree in Aerospace Engineering. The Holloway Park Veterans Memorial was the vision of Councilmember Sal Guarriello and local veterans. It was designed by Douglas and Regula Campbell Artists/Architects and Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States. A group comprised of local veterans and members of the West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission oversaw the initial design process in 1999. The Memorial includes parkland space surrounded by a low wall engraved en·grave tr.v. en·graved, en·grav·ing, en·graves 1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. 2. with poetry by former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. The wall also features a row of shields commemorating the five branches of the United States Armed Forces Used to denote collectively only the regular components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. See also Armed Forces of the United States. . For more information on the Holloway Park Veterans Memorial Dedication Ceremony, call 323-848-6445. |
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