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Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans ceremony planned for Veterans Day
The James L Hammons Marine Corps League plans a Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans ceremony on Veterans Day at the Aiken County Veterans Memorial Park on Richland Avenue East. The program includes a twilight flyover by a PT 17 WW II aircraft piloted by Rick Mantel, with Richard Glass as co pilot, plus speakers Col Ret Quin Herlik and nurse Eleanor Weatherford. A pre day visit to Augusta VA hospital and cake and ice cream at Mattie C Hall precede the event. The program features a high school band JOY 102.7 radio National Anthem by Maureen Simpson taps 21 gun salute candlelight vigil and a wreath laying by the Marine Corps League Color Guard. Public invited. chairs and a portable toilet provided.
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James L. Hammons
Marine Corps League
Aiken County Veterans Memorial
Richland Avenue
USAF
Rick Mantel
Aiken Airort
Mantel
Richard Glass
Augusta VA
Mattie C. Hall
Aiken
Aiken County
Ed Hammons
Col
Quin Herlik
Vietnam
Eleanor Weatherfords
South Aikien High School
JOY 102.7 Radio
Tommy