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Milton Celebrates Memorial Day This Morning at City Hall
A student essay, a Vietnam POW and a military aircraft flyover will be part of the event.
The City of Milton’s fourth annual Memorial Day Ceremony is scheduled at10 a.m. today at
This year’s ceremony includes performances by local songstress Kennedy Taylor and Cara McDermott, principal trumpet of the Milton High School Band, the reading of a Memorial Day Essay by student Madison Landis, and featured speaker Col. Murphy Neal Jones, who spent nearly seven years in a Hanoi, Vietnam prisoner of war camp and continued his military service after being released.
The ceremony will conclude with a roll call of local living and fallen veterans, punctuated by a military aircraft flyover at 11 a.m.
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Friends and families of local fallen veterans are then invited to reflect upon the handmade markers created to remember their legacy and placed along Deerfield Parkway by Councilman Bill Lusk.
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