Memorial Day - 2011 - Cypress Forest Lawn

Memorial Day – 2011 – Cypress Forest Lawn
Justice is truth in action - www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, May 30, 2011- 10-11 A.M.

Keynote Speaker - LTC Kurt A. Schlichter – California National Guard

Thank all for the ones who are here. [Heroes that are all around us] Freedom, justice, democracy is not the rule, it is the exception. [Made possible by the sacrifice of heroes.]

Today’s generation is equal to any before. [Critics who think otherwise are wrong.] Our forces are facing the enemy as we speak. We honor the 6,000 who have lost their lives during the past ten years. We walk in a path made by heroes.

We live in a beautiful, peaceful place in California. America has always been at war. Recall the Nazis, the Communists, the Socialists and now Al Qaeda. [Our inalienable rights, no one can steal.} Our Founding Fathers understood that truth and so the men who have died for our freedom. The heroes resting here believed they had something worth dying for.

There are heroes around us who have served. And they are around us. Veterans give so much.

I HAVE A MISSION FOR YOU. The heroes who don’t tell stories. Step forward and tell your story. [Our nation must understand the past to protect the future.] Talk to your grandchildren, tell them what you saw.

The time for modesty is past. [We need to teach them, friends that they are things worth dying for] [Stay away from shades of gray with respect to good and evil.]] Our men and women know that evil exists. [We must defeat this evil.] …

Life – Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. We are the greatest and freest nation the world has ever known.

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‘TODAY IS OUR NATION’S MOST SACRED HOLIDAY’

PROGRAM
Prelude Music ----------Western High School Band --- Sandra Hench, Director

Ceremony Host --------------------Elaine Williams -- David MacDonald, V.P. Forest Lawn-Cypress, California

Master of Ceremonies ------------ Carl Millock, Commander --- Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post #9847

“Gettysburg Address” -------------------------- William Peck as Abraham Lincoln

Presidential Proclamation ------- Mayor Leroy Mills ------------- Lt.Col., USAF, (Ret), City of Cypress

Invocation, Roll Call of deceased Veterans, Benediction – Brig. General George Vogel. Chaplain Veterans Affairs Healthcare Service, Long Beach

George H. Kubeck