Clarksville-Montgomery County 2015 Memorial Day Ceremony
May 14, 2015
Montgomery County, TN – The Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization is hosting its annual Memorial Day Ceremony at 10:00am, May 25th, at Veterans Memorial Park, Clarksville.
City and county officials, as well as MCVSO staff will give remarks, with the keynote address given by retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Wendell Cheek, who currently serves as Deputy Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs.
Clarksville-Montgomery County Memorial Day Ceremony
Clarksville-Montgomery County Memorial Day Ceremony to be held May 27th, 2013
May 23, 2013
Montgomery County, TN – The Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization is hosting its annual Memorial Day Ceremony at 10:00am, May 27th, at Veterans Memorial Park, Clarksville, TN.
City and county officials, as well as MCVSO staff will give remarks, with the keynote address given by LTC (Retired) Norman “Greg” Lane, US Army Reserve, who currently serves as the Battalion Executive Officer of Austin Peay State University’s ROTC.
The colors were posted by the Elester Garner Chapter of the 555th Triple Nickel as members of the Gold Star Wives look on during last year’s Memorial Day Ceremony.
Clarksville-Montgomery County Memorial Day Ceremony May 28th
May 24, 2012
Montgomery County, TN – The Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization is hosting its annual Memorial Day Ceremony at 10:00am, May 28th, at Veterans Memorial Park, Clarksville.
City and county officials, as well as MCVSO staff will speak, with the keynote address by Colonel William B. Hickman, Deputy Commander of Operations, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). [Read more]
Clarksville Area Memorial Day Events
May 29, 2011
Written by the Women Veterans of America Chapter 20
Clarksville, TN – Three years after the Civil War ended, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans, established May 30th as Decoration Day, a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. It is believed that date was chosen because flowers would be in bloom all over the country.
Gen. Logan’s order for his posts to decorate graves in 1868 “with the choicest flowers of springtime” urged: “We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. … Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.”
Women Veterans of America Chapter 20
The Clarksville-Montgomery County Memorial Day Ceremony
June 9, 2010
The Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization hosted a Memorial Day Ceremony at 10:00am on May 31st, at Veterans Memorial Park, Clarksville. Retired Air Force Maj. Bill Summers, Ward 10 Clarksville city councilman, will be guest speaker.
Clarksville-Montgomery County Memorial Day Ceremony
May 24, 2010
The Montgomery County Veterans Service Organization is hosting a Memorial Day Ceremony at 10:00 am, May 31st, at Veterans Memorial Park, Clarksville.
Retired Air Force Maj. Bill Summers, Ward 10 Clarksville city councilman, will be guest speaker.
Montgomery County Mayor Carolyn Bowers and Clarksville Mayor Johnny Piper will welcome ceremony guests and offer words of remembrance and appreciation. [Read more]
