Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 1, 1995 TAG: 9507030008
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
Retired Capt. Ben Tate will give the main address at the ceremony marking the highlight of the county's July 4 activities.
The activities will get under way at 10 a.m. with a parade, starting at Duncan's Bridge on First Street and moving up Main Street past the Old Courthouse and disbanding in the parking lot of the Pulaski County Administration Building.
Anyone who is a veteran is invited to march in the parade. Members of the Pulaski County High School Cougar Band and color guard groups will also participate.
State Sen. Madison Marye, D-Shawsville, a retired U.S. Army major, will be among the participants in the dedication ceremony. Retired Army Col. Dallas Cox, who was instrumental in pushing through the plan to get the memorial built, will give welcoming remarks. County Attorney Tom McCarthy, a colonel in the Army Reserve, will introduce Tate as the main speaker.
The welcome will be given by Supervisor Bruce Fariss, a retired Army colonel. It was Fariss who stepped out of a Board of Supervisors meeting last year and returned in his Army uniform to address the board in favor of building the memorial in front of the county's historic courthouse.
County Veterans of Foreign Wars Commander William H. Manning and American Legion Commander Sonny Vaughn will read out the names of county residents killed and missing in action or were prisoners of war in both world wars and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.
Board of Supervisors Chairman Jerry White will give the dedication speech, followed by the Old Courthouse clock tolling one minute before the lighting of an eternal flame at the memorial. A VFW honor guard will give a 21-gun salute.
Food will be available following the ceremony.
by CNB