American Legion Post 87 will sponsor the event – scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday at Floral Garden Memorial Park – which will include a speaker, music, the reading of the names of local veterans who have died within the past year and more.
This will be the 62nd year for the service, which previously was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion Post 619.
“A wreath will be placed in memory of veterans, there will be flowers there and there will be a huge cross of flags in front of the flagpole in the veteran’s section,” said Elizabeth Shufelt, who has helped organize the service for 20 years. “There will be a special section for Gold Star Mothers whose sons died in battle.”
The featured speaker will be Dick Jones, a local freelance writer whose work is featured in The High Point Enterprise. Shufelt said Jones has been involved with the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit organization that assists U.S. servicemen and women who have been severely injured in the line of duty.
“A lot of the veterans in that program have a hard time, and he has become involved with the program, and hopefully he will talk about that,” Shufelt said.
Music at the service will be provided by Shepherd’s Voice, a family vocal quartet.
The cemetery furnishes 100 chairs for the service. Shufelt recommended those in attendance bring lawn chairs to assure adequate seating.
The service is in addition to another service that will be held on Saturday in downtown High Point at the Veterans Memorial on High Street, across from the train depot. The Saturday service, which begins at 10 a.m., will feature speakers, a bagpiper and an honor guard presentation.
Also, the annual Thomasville Memorial Day Parade will be Monday at 11:15 a.m. in downtown Thomasville on Salem Street. The parade will be preceded by a wreath-laying ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the Interstate 85 rest stop in Davidson County, between Thomasville and Lexington, at 10 a.m.
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