Here are a list of Memorial Day events being observed Monday in Bartholomew County.
Wreath ceremony
9 a.m.: Tossing of wreaths into East Fork White River from the Robert N. Stewart Bridge by the Bartholomew County Honor Guard and members of the auxiliaries of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War organizations. This ceremony is specifically held to commemorate Navy personnel buried at sea.
Cemetery ceremony
10 a.m.: Traditional ceremony honoring local veterans in the veterans sections of Garland Brook Cemetery, where more than 3,000 veterans are buried.
Bartholomew County Memorial Day Program
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Veterans memorial ceremony
11 a.m.: Bartholomew County Memorial for Veterans, Second and Jackson streets: Keynote speaker is Eli Edwards, Columbus Signature Academy New Tech High School graduating senior and incoming Air Force Academy freshman. This will include recognition of area Gold Star mothers Deb Kleinschmidt, mother of late U.S. Marine Sgt. Jeremy McQueary, killed in Afghanistan in 2010, and Kimberly Thompson, mother of U.S. Army Sgt. Jonathon Hunter, killed in 2017 in Afghanistan.
Hope legion ceremonies
Hope American Legion Post 229 with assistance from Boy Scout Troop 543
8:30 a.m.: Sharon Cemetery
8:50 a.m.: Newbern Cemetery, North County Road 700E
9:15 a.m.: Hartsville square, Indiana 46
9:40 a.m.: Hawcreek Church Cemetery, Stafford Road and County Road 900 East.
10 a.m.: Simmons Cemetery, North County Road 625E
10:15 a.m.: Old St. Louis Cemetery, North County Road 670E
10:30 a.m.: Hawcreek Bridge, Jackson Street
11 a.m.: Hope Moravian Cemetery Veterans Memorial, Race Street, Hope
Civil war ceremonies
The John B. Anderson Camp #223 of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Department of Indiana
9 a.m.: Columbus City Cemetery, between 16th and 19th streetsat the GAR Monument west of the caretaker’s building, in the middle of the cemetery.
10 a.m.: Springer Cemetery, U.S. 31 and East County Road 475S at the John B. Anderson gravesite, which is west of the chapel building in the northwest corner of the cemetery. Springer Cemetery is located in Bartholomew County south of Columbus at the corner of U.S. 31 and East County Road 475S.
11 a.m.: Newsom Cemetery, 7800 block of East County Road 400Sat the Jariah B. Dinkins gravesite.
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Coming Thursday, The Republic will look at how the city served the country with its military air base, originally named Atterbury Army Air Field and later renamed Bakalar Air Force Base, in a 24-page special section, Salute.
The section details the air base’s construction and opening 75 years ago in 1943, its use during wartime and peacetime, its closure and handover to the city in the early 1970s, and its eventual repurposing as the city’s airport.
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