Morgan Hill will observe Memorial Day, as usual, on May 30 at a
9am ceremony at the Veterans Memorial, downtown on Monterey Road at
First Street.
Morgan Hill will observe Memorial Day, as usual, on May 30 at a 9am ceremony at the Veterans Memorial, downtown on Monterey Road at First Street.
Vietnam vet Eddie Bowers has organized the event – as he has done for years – to honor and remember those who died in wars and actions protecting the United States.
“This is also for anyone who served in the military,” Bowers said Monday. “Everybody had a job to do. Not everybody had to fight.”
The annual event has more than one highlight. Along with the MIA/KIA flag from the Vietnam War, Bowers raises a flag honoring a veteran who had died recently. This year the flag will honor Walter James Tarp, a member of an old Morgan Hill family.
Dave Emmert and Marty Hall will lay wreaths and William Gilmore will read the names of Morgan Hill men who fell in the nation’s wars.
The Rev. Anita Warner of Advent Lutheran Church will give the prayer and a short talk.
The crowd will hear patriotic songs sung by local elementary schoolchildren, led by Karen Crane. Grant Halliday, age 5, will recite the Gettysburg Address and trumpeter Steve Johnson will begin the ceremony with “Call to the Colors” and end it with the poignant “Taps.”
