A free Veterans Day ceremony begins at 9 a.m. today, Wednesday, Nov. 11, at San Tan Memorial Gardens at Schnepf Farms, 22425 E. Cloud Road, and will dedicate a flagpole honoring veterans, the Queen Creek Tribune reported.
This is the cemetery's 10th annual Veterans Day event, and it is open to the public.
The program
According to the Tribune's listing:
- The American Legion Honor Guard will present the colors.
- Local Scout troops will raise the flag.
- Victoria Ainsworth will sing the national anthem.
- Donald Ayers, captain of the color guard at American Legion Post 129, will give the keynote.
- To end the ceremony, Grounded No More Veteran Lift will fly over in an IAR-823, a trainer plane built in Romania.
Organizers describe the morning as a chance for veterans to meet one another and trade stories, and for neighbors to thank them. "This event is about honoring those who have served and letting them know how much we appreciate what they have done for us," Dillon Benavides of San Tan Memorial Gardens told the Tribune.
