Thanks again to Jaye Nordling and Dennis
Hurd-PER, we had another very nice Memorial Day
Service at the Spokane Memorial Gardens.
We’ve done this service for many years and would
love to have more members attend.
While
we had a bit better crowd than in recent
years, we would still like to have more of
our members show up to honor our veterans.The
entire program is only about a half hour
long.Surely many more of us could find
that much time to dedicate to the
remembrance of our departed Veterans.
American Flags lining the
entry to Spokane Memorial Gardens
Crowd seated for the
Memorial Day Service
Our Officials for the
Ceremony:
LtoR - Peter Rainbolt - Chaplain; Jaye Nordling -
Exalted Ruler;
Command Chief Master Sergeant Craig Weddle - Guest
Speaker;
Dennis Hurd (PER) - Committee Chairman and Drummer
Craig
Weddle, Command CMSGT USAF, Ret. of Spokane
Valley, was our Guest Speaker with a moving and
heartfelt address
Chaplain Peter Rainbolt
leading us in prayer
In addition to the
speakers and prayers, we were honored in having ER
Jaye lead the audience in singing the Star
Spangled Banner and God Bless America.We also had
a ceremonial rifle squad who provided us with a
salute.
Richard ‘Phantom’ Brown, Clint
‘Predator’ Reid,Jon ‘Pwig’ Murkins;
Jason ‘Trick
Shot’ Kamp of the Combat Vets Motorcycle Assn.
Military Veteran, William Berry,
playing TAPS
A big THANK YOU to Jaye Nordling and Dennis Hurd
for organizing and making this ceremony
possible!
