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Memorial day 2014 schedule of events
May 23,2014
8:00 AM
May 24, 2014
9:00 AM
May 26, 2014
9:30am - 10:00am
Avenue of Honor Flags are placed on display at the Colfax and McKeever Cemetaries. The Flags will remain up until sundown on the 27th
Flags are placed on the graves of all veterans buried in the Colfax and McKeever Cemeteries.
Ceremony begins at Veterans Memorial Park in the Colfax Cemetery.
Roll Call (names of veterans who died this year are read).
Wreath Laying Ceremony
Address by Minister
21 gun Salute
10:00 AM
10:30 AM
All veterans are invited to participate in the Parade of Veterans from the Colfax Cemetery through downtown Colfax to the Skunk River bridge.
Ceremony to honor members of the armed forces lost at sea begins on the bank of the Skunk River.
21 gun Salute.
Flower Memorial.
Ceremony concludes.
10:45 AM
11:00 AM
Flag Retirement Ceremony in Mannatts Parking Lot
Memorial Day Community Picnic Begins at the 4-H Building in the Jasper County Fairgrounds.