TODAY WE BEGAN OUR TWENTIETH YEAR HONORING OUR 277 SHIPMATES WHO DIED WHILE SERVING IN USS FORRESTAL AT ARLINGTON CEMETERY AND THE NAVY MEMORIAL.
WE BEGAN OUR DAY OF OBSERVANCE AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMENTERY AT THE FORRESTAL GRAVE SITE IN SECTION 46 GRAVE 556-7-8. THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED TODAY WERE JOEL MAY M DIVISION, ROBERT SULLVAN AIMD, CHERYL AND CECIL BURGESS OF S-2 DIVISION, MARIANNE AND DAVE KINGSTON OF S-6 DIVISION, MARGARET AND PETER BELING AND THEIR FINE YOUNG CHILDREN AND MYSELF KEN KILLMEYER OF SECOND DIVISION. WE PLACE FLOWERS ON EACH SIDE OF THE FORRESTAL GRAVE SITE FOLLOWED BY THE PLAYING OF THE CAPTAIN'S PRAYER, THE NAVY HYMN AND TAPS. FOLLOWING THAT WE TRAVELED TO THE NAVY MEMORIAL AND PLACE FLOWERS AT THE LONE SAILOR STATUE.
THE TASK GETTING TO AND FROM ARLINGTON CEMETERY AND THEN ON OVER INTO WASHINGTON, DC TO THE NAVY MEMORIAL WAS A BIT OF A CHORE FOR ALL INVOLVED DO TO THE ESTIMATED 750,000 MOTORCYCLISTS WHO TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON, DC TO HONOR THIS COUNTRIES VETERANS AND TO BRING AWARENESS TO OUR MISSING IN ACTION SERVICEMEN. I APPRECIATE ALL THOSE WHO ATTENDED.
Ken Killmeyer
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