Decoration Day 2022

May 28, 2022
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Zoe Nechvatal
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DECORATION DAY  Saturday, May 28, 2022, (anticipation)  MEMORIAL DAY 

Placing of wreaths in remembrance of the fallen at THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 403 MEMORIAL, New Chestnut Grove Cemetery. (Two wreaths will be placed at this time after the ceremony one will be moved to the Old Chestnut Grove Cemetery.) 

By JAMES SHERWOOD, U.S.ARMY Veteran 1st 73 Armor, 4th Brigade JIM WALLACE, i U.S.ARMY retired, Served in Korea and Viet Nam, Veteran FRANK SPEPIC, U.S. ARMY, Veteran.

TAPS
 by Bugler FRANK SPEPIC, U.S.ARMY, Veteran 

A moment of silence in remembrance of the fallen. 

Raising of the flag flown over USS VULCAN (AR-5) by ZOEN.
Presented by Captain Spencer, Commanding Officer, officers, and crew, to St. Brendan School history classes. 

Raising of BRAVO ZULU, only official congratulatory signal used by the U.S. Navy by ZOE N. Presented by Commander David G. Clark, Commanding Officer; Officers, and Crew, to St. Brendan history classes, 1982. USS SEMMES DDG-18 

Trustee Jeanene Kress, Olmsted Township,
Ohio Councilman Lori Jones, Olmsted Falls, Ohio 

Reading of a portion of UNDERNEATH THE LILACS (written by Bruce Catton) Source: Bruce Catton's America: Selections from His Greatest Works Read by Trudy Wilmink. 

THE UNKNOWN DEAD 
written by Elizabeth Robbins Berry 
Read by Trustee Riley Alton, Olmsted Township, Ohio 

PLACING OF CARNATIONS: 
RED: U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marines, U.S. Coast Guard 
WHITE: U.S. Merchant Marine, WACS Women's Army Corps), 
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service)
PINK: You may wish to remember an individual/individuals. If you do, please 
say their name. 

SPECIAL THANKS FROM CHESTNUT GROVE CEMETERY and THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLMSTED FALLS TO: 
ANGELINA'S PIZZA 8155 Columbia Road
BROWN HARDWARE, 23029 Columbia Road 
CUTTING GARDEN, 25561 Mill Street 
Trustee Riley Alton James Sherwood 
Councilman Lori Jones 
Trustee Jeanene Kress 
Terri Grospitch 
Denise Schippel, Romancing the Walls, 602-315-9376 (wreaths) 
Zoe N. ,Frank Spepic, James Wallace, and Trudy Wilmink 


WME May 27, 2022 

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