Veteran's Day

Celebrate Veterans Day at Ontelaunee Park with your friends and neighbors Three Food Trucks will provide great food and drinks from 2pm to 7pm Great guitar music by Chriss Noll plus basket raffles during the day. Meet with Memorial committee members to learn about the new project for the memorial site. Patriotic Musical-The Gilbert Family "Sing for America" performance at 3pm Bag Pipers will perform a Military Tribute, Amazing Grace and other patriotic tunes to recognize the service of our veterans. Kutztown Pipe Band performance at 4:30pm. Northwestern Lehigh Middle School students will conduct an educational Scavenger Hunt featuring the symbolism, history and quotations around the memorial site. FMI email [email protected] or call 610-760-1175 Today there are 2603 veterans memorialized on the granite panels with 214 open spaces throughout the 14 war periods. Each year we accept names to be added in the spring for our Memorial Day program. However, the Cold War and Vietnam War periods are nearly filled limiting our ability to add veterans who served in those wars. As a result, the memorial committee has unveiled a new design that will allow new names to be added when requested by veterans or their families, and to provide a place for our children and grandchildren who will answer their call to serve in the future. The new proposal replaces the existing metal fence around the memorial perimeter with a beautiful stone wall capped with 32 granite stones. Each cap is sized to have three columns of names, as they appear on the existing panels, providing for an additional 900 names. We hope to complete this project one year after the 250th Birthday of America’s Independence for the Memorial Day ceremony in 2027. Our cost estimate for this project is $160,000, which is about $175/name, plus $100 for the future engraving. Please consider making a donation to this project to honor of our local veterans who unselfishly served to keep America free

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