Please join us on Memorial Day, Monday May 27th for a ceremony honoring our veterans. The Chadds Ford Township Residents Association is proud to continue the tradition of honoring our local veterans buried at the Brandywine Baptist Church cemetery. As usual, our local Boy Scout Troop 31 will be the color guard for this ceremony and will be joined by scouts from Troop 191, as well as veterans from American Legion Brandywine Post 811 who will perform the twenty-one gun salute. This year’s guest speaker will be Eric Gartner, Retired United States Air Force Colonel, current 51st United States Marshal, and longtime Chadds Ford resident. The program for the morning is as follows.
Gather: 8:00-8:15am
Program to start no later than 8:30am
Processional: Color guard and Boy Scout troops — from upper parking lot to mid-drive
Welcome by American Legion Brandywine Post 811 representative Erik Kocher
Invocation by Pastor Robert Kossak
National Anthem sung by Melinda Quinn
Speech by Col. Eric Gartner, USAF, Ret.
Placing of flowers on veterans’ graves (marked with flags)
21-gun Salute by American Legion Brandywine Post 811
Taps by Scout from BSA Troop 31
Benediction by Pastor Robert Kossak
Recessional