Memorial Day Program – Fairfax City, VA

Please join American Legion Post 177 and VFW Post 8469 on Monday May 31, 2010 for a traditional Memorial Day Service at the Fairfax War Memorial on the lawn of the Old Fairfax Courthouse (on the corner of Route 123 and Main Street in Fairfax City).

09:00 am start

• Colors to half mast

• Opening prayer (Commander Houston, VFW Post 8469)

• Pledge of Allegiance (Comrade McAnaw)

• Remarks by US Congressman Gerald Connolly

• Remarks by Chairman the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Sharon Bulova

• Remarks by Braddock District Supervisor John Cook

• Remarks by Fairfax City Mayor Robert Lederer

• Remarks by Fairfax City Councilwoman Joan Cross

• Reading of the Fairfax Honor Roll (volunteers line up to read names from the book at the podium. Pause briefly for the bell to toll for each name)

• Laying of the wreaths at the Fairfax War Memorial (Comrade McAnaw)

• Closing prayer (Commander Sussan, American Legion Post 177)

• Playing of Taps (Comrade Hank Roeder)

Following this ceremony, if you wish, you may accompany the VFW into Fairfax Cemetery for a remembrance of their departed comrades while American Legion members go back to Oak Street for their march to the Cemetery.