By AUBRIE GEORGE
The Moorestown Sun
Moorestown will honor veterans, fallen soldiers and those currently serving our country in the armed forces with the township’s annual Memorial Day ceremony scheduled for Monday, May 31.
The 24th annual ceremony is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. at Memorial Field, located on South Church Street. The ceremony will include music, the traditional flag-raising and honoring of those who gave the ultimate sacrifice by placing flowers at the memorial site as the names are read aloud. There will also be a unique addition to this year’s event.
Recreation Director Theresa Miller said the event will begin with a performance from the Moorestown High School Band and the pledge of allegiance being lead by Boy Scout Troop 44 and Cub Scout Troop 44. There will be a signing of the National Anthem and an invocation by Pastor Ingrid Wengert of St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
There will then be a musical interlude by the Second Baptist Church of Moorestown choir, followed by a welcome speech from Mayor Dan Roccato.
The main speaker at this year’s event will be Capt. Kristian P. Biggs, the commanding officer and Aegis technical representative.
Moorestown will then follow the Memorial Day tradition of a roll call in remembrance of veterans and soldiers whose names are on the memorial at the field. Judith Young, an American Gold Star mother and the mother of Jeffery Young, who Jeff Young Park is named after, will do the roll call.
There will also be a military salute from Post 42 of the American Legion, a benediction by Jim O’Neil from Our Lady of Good Counsel and a musical conclusion from the First United Methodist Church of Moorestown choir.
Following the conclusion of the service, the public is invited to proceed to the baseball field for the unveiling of four baseball fields that are being dedicated to the four Moorestown High School graduates who died in Vietnam, Miller said.
Fields will dedicated in honor of George S. Yohnnson (class of ’65), Howard H. Mayer (’65), W. Phillip Seel, Jr. (’65) and Roger Ross (’64).
