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VETERANS DAY 11-11-2021
Posted: 11/12/2021
VETERANS DAY 11-11-2021
Eighteen USNA LowCountry Alumni Chapter members and family belonging to classes from 1960 to 2010 participated in this year’s Veteran’s Day observance at the Beaufort National Cemetery.
The 158-year-old cemetery has almost 27,000 burial sites, including those for the 24 Naval Academy graduates that were honored this year.
The ceremony consisted of a gathering to remember and give thanks to the veterans of all distant and recent wars – we are deeply grateful for their sacrifices. We then placed a Naval Academy flag at each of our fallen shipmate’s gravesites with a silent prayer of thanks.
Beaufort National Cemetery is one of 155 National Veterans Cemeteries and one of only 82 that remain open for all interments.
VETRANS DAY ACTIVITIES
Posted: 10/27/2021
Shipmates,
The special time is approaching when we honor Shipmates who have Crossed the Bar and have been laid to rest in the Beaufort National Cemetery (BNC). We will continue our tradition of placing USNA flags on their grave sites on Veterans Day, and then having lunch across the street at Bricks on Boundary. The details are as follows:
11 November 2021
1130-assemble in the BNC parking lot (specific parking instructions to follow);
1140- receive assignments, flags and grave locations;
1145-1200- place USNA Flags on the designated grave sites;
1215-meet at Bricks on Boundary, 1422 Boundary Street, Beaufort for lunch. Restaurant is right across the street from the Cemetery. Order off the menu.
Please RSVP to Doug Ogden ’67 at douglassogden@gmail.com if you plan to attend, and please advise whether you will attend
1. just the placing of the Flags
2. Just the luncheon, or
3′ Both.
Please respond by 1800 on Sunday 7 November so that the Cemetery and Bricks can be advised as to how many to expect.
