March 28, 2024

February Preparations Underway for Special EPVME Veterans' Event

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On Saturday, Feb. 20, from 10 a. m. to noon, the public is invited to help prepare for the EP Veterans' Memorial Expressway (EPVME) Re-dedication ceremony.

  1. Donations of plastic or silk, solid red, solid white, and solid blue, carnations or roses, and greenery, can be dropped off in the Pierce Field parking lot. These will be used to decorate the bridge memorial signs.
  2.  If you have NOT been able to do so VIA THE INTERNET, names for the EP Military Service Honor Roll CAN BE SUBMITTED ON PAPER and DROPPED OFF. Please provide in memory of or in honor of, last name, rank, first name, middle initial or name, military event/years or country, KIA, MIA, POW, active duty, reserves, etc., and branch. Please include a phone #, email address, or SASE, to confirm receipt and to contact you in case there is a need to clarify the information.
    View more details about the EP Military Service Honor Roll and present names posted at www.ephist.org. Deadline is Oct. 1, 2021. The most recent EP Military Service Honor Roll will be included in the virtual ceremony.
  3. Making a videotape of part of the Nov. 6th ceremony is underway. Need to borrow flags of each branch of the military service, MIA, POW, USA (50-100 flags), RI, and EP on poles and a large USA flag without a pole. Volunteers to videotape the event and edit the video are needed. Please email EPVME@hotmail.com to arrange a one day loan of the flags or to receive the time to meet to videotape and any last minute or rain date info via email.
    The video will become part of a virtual ceremony to be available to people who cannot attend the Nov. 6th EPVME re-dedication ceremony. Details how to reserve a copy will be published later.

Further ceremony details and the volunteers needed, as well as the names of veterans with bridge memorials (seeking to contact their relatives, see the Jan. Reporter) are posted at https://sites.google.com/view/epvmer2021  

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