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RALLY FOR AMERICA
Welcome Home
1:30 Opening Ceremony
Posting of the Colors - To The Colors
Bugle Call
Mike Sarkisian - Veteran US Army, Vietnam
Pledge of Allegiance -
National Anthem
PDN Team Leader Dawn Setters
Invocation
Dr. Frank Eaton
Memorial Reading:
Jesse and Johnny Garcia:
When
contemplating this Memorial Day, consider these
tender words from 3-year-old Taylor Pokorney at the
funeral service for his father, Marine Corps 1st Lt.
Frederick Pokorney, killed in action recently in
Iraqi: "My daddy, my hero, I will take care of
Mommy for you as you asked. We will be best
friends. I will take her to SeaWorld for my birthday
like you planned. I love you. I need you. I miss
you."
MOMENT OF SILENCE
God of our Fathers
Arcade Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir
Karma Garcia - In a Mother's words.
Master of Ceremonies reads:
"It
is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
--Gen. George S. Patton
Opening comments - Military personnel.
Salute to the Armed Forces –
Camp Kirkland arrangement
Arcade Baptist Church choir.
Nancy Tran –
Our
next honored guest is the daughter of former
political refugees. She’s a community activist and
popular Vietnamese Language talk show host on Radio
TNT 1150 AM. She blesses us today with a message of
hope and pride for America.
Nhuong
Nguyen
Served as a Company Commander in the 18th Division
Infantry. His military service began in 1967 until
he was imprisoned by the communist regime in 1975.
Commander Win was held captive for some seven
years until his release in 1982. He immigrated to
America in 1992.
Mara Wallis:
Entertaining Vietnam
Today we celebrate the valor of heroes who fought,
those died and those who returned from distant
shores, jungles and deserts. Here, our memories
serve up images of those time and among them, Bob
Hope, John Wayne and others who entertained the
troops with well covered USO programs on holidays.
There's another group of homeland heroes who dared
death and discomfort to go into live fire and combat
zones. They went to bring a message of hope, respect
and love. They are truly veterans of war in their
own right, ladies and gentlemen, one of them Mara
Wallis...
Ed Manuel
was born in the Philippines and became a US citizen
in 1974. A recently retired deputy clerk in the
federal court of appeals , he is a former mayor of
Hercules; loves ballroom dancing, singing and
composing songs. He wrote America Beloved during the
first Persian Gulf War as a tribute to the flag and
to our men in uniform specially those who died
for our freedom. He hopes that someday, every one
will be inspired to sing it , and even more so, be
proud to be an American. Here's Ed Manuel......."
Craig DeLuz –
President & CEO The Make a Difference Project
691-2722 or 919-1151
Olga Sweitzer -
Came
to US from St.Petersburg, Russia 12 years ago. She
expresses love for her new home, America, feeling
fortunate to live in this country, where she can
have many opportunities for her life. Olga shows her
caring for this country, by serving the people in
the community where she lives and works.
Kendall Tobe and Megan McCorry - It's a Grand Old
Flag
Alfredo Nájera III
Vice-Chair of the Republican National Hispanic
Assembly of San francisco, CA. A former Democrat
and Leftist, as well as past leader of the American
Indian Movement Youth Council in San Francisco.
Now a Proud Republican since the end of 1999. Was
also the organizer of Support Our Troops Family Day
Rally in San Francisco on March 29 where at least
1000 to 1200 people showed up to raise our Flag in
the belly of the Anti-War-Beast.
Dan Galbraith - Marines Motor Cycle Club
Ed Morrison - Personal Tribute to Father: US Army
526th Armored Infantry Battalion - Battle of the
Bulge World War II
READING: THE GIPPER
"The
men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing
was right, faith that they fought for all humanity,
faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this
beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge --
and pray God we have not lost it -- that there is a
profound moral difference between the use of force
for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
--Ronald Reagan
Victory Choir of the Calvary Christian Center:
Pastor Philip G. Goudeaux
God Bless America
EilenePorter@aol.com 427-8694 (home) 719-2953
(cell)
Change: "Victory Choir of the Calvary Christian
Center" to read "Calvary Christian Center Victory
Choir".
Calvary Christian Center LOCATED ON Del Paso
Boulvedard has a membership of 12,000 and has been
in existance for 23 years under the direction of its
founder, Pastor Phillip G. Goudeaux. The Victory
Choir ministers 3 services on Sunday and Wednesday
nights, as well as outreach events throughout the
community. Calvary Christian Center's Mass Choir
produced its first album in 2001.
Bret Daniels - Resolution City of Citrus Heights:
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY
OF CITRUS HEIGHTS, CALIFORNIA
SUPPORTING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN HIS
ACTION TO DISARM THE REGIME OF SADDAM HUSSEIN AND
DECLARING THE CITY’S SUPPORT FOR THE WOMEN AND MEN
OF OUR ARMED FORCES
IN THE PERSIAN GULF AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD
AS THEY SERVE OUR NATION
WHEREAS, President Bush has pursued patient and
honorable efforts to disarm Iraq without war; and
WHEREAS, the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein has
defied the Security Council resolutions demanding
full disarmament; and
WHEREAS, the President must consider the new
potential connection
between terrorists and weapons of mass destruction
as a security issue for our nation, necessitating a
consideration of what the consequences of inaction
might be; and
WHEREAS, the woman and men of our Armed Forces
stand ready to protect, defend and restore peace
even at the sacrifice of their well being.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City
Council of the City of Citrus Heights that we
support President Bush in his difficult decision and
that we also support the woman and men of our Armed
Forces in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere in the
world as they act in the service of our nation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the
City of Citrus Heights, California this 26th day of
March 2003...
Passed 5-0
4:30 - 4:45 TRIBUTE TO HOMELAND SECURITY
VFW District 17 Honor Guard:
This Honor Guard was put together in it's current
form about ten years ago. We serve the VFW's 17
District which encompasses about three counties. Our
primary function is to provide funeral honors at
those funerals that the military cannot handle due
to manpower. In 2002 we performed close to 300
ceremonies. To date this year we have performed an
average of one per business day. We also post colors
for special occasions but like to limit that due to
our own manpower problems. We are all volunteers.
Most of us are disabled vets but we consider our
function to provide a final salute to a deceased
veteran both an honor and duty that we are still
able to perform with dignity.
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Walt Garchow, Army, Philippines, WWII
George Coleman, Marines, South Pacific, WWII
Bob Ihrig, Air Force Retired, Korea Peacekeeping,
Viet Nam
Grant Lundergreen, Army Air Corps, China Burma
Theater, WWII
James Murphy, Marines, Pacific Theater, WWII, Korean
War
Barbara Overby, Air Force Retired, Korea
Peacekeeping
Mike Sarkisian - Veteran US Army, Vietnam
Member of
http://buglesacrossamerica.org
Many communities will end the National Moment of
Remembrance at 1500 on Memorial Day by playing Taps.
From a friend at the USMA, West Point, comes this
brief history of Taps: In July 1862, after the Seven
Days battles at Harrison’s Landing (near Richmond),
Virginia, the wounded Commander of the 3rd Brigade,
1st Division, V Army Corps, Army of the Potomac,
General Daniel Butterfield reworked, with his bugler
Oliver Wilcox Norton, another bugle call, “Scott
Tattoo,” to create Taps. He thought that the regular
call for Lights Out was too formal. The custom, thus
originated, was taken up throughout the Army of the
Potomac and finally confirmed by orders. Soon other
Union units began using Taps, and even a few
Confederate units began using it as well. After the
war, Taps became an official bugle call. Col. James
A. Moss, in his Officer’s Manual first published in
1911, gives an account of the initial use of Taps at
a military funeral: “During the Peninsular Campaign
in 1862, a soldier of Tidball’s Battery A of the 2nd
Artillery was buried at a time when the battery
occupied an advanced position concealed in the
woods. It was unsafe to fire the customary three
volleys over the grave, on account of the proximity
of the enemy, and it occurred to Capt. Tidball that
the sounding of Taps would be the most appropriate
ceremony that could be substituted.”
Colors courtesy Senator Tim Leslie, Jedd Medefind -
Chief of Staff and Department of General Services
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