The Historic Riverside Cemetery Conservancy and the 352nd Combat Sustainment Battalion sponsored the third annual Veterans Day Commemoration at Riverside Cemetery on November 11th at 11:00 am. We honored veterans of the armed forces at the site of our proposed Veterans Memorial Plaza (see article below). This event was free and open to the public.

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The sixty people in attendance contributed to an observance which included an invocation by Reverend Andy Pickens and a speech by Joseph N. Neel, III, himself a veteran of the Korean conflict and descendant of veterans of both World War I and World War II.  Ceremonial pageantry was provided by Mercer University ROTC (posting of colors) and by the 352nd CSSB (21 gun salute and wreath laying) and Bugler Ray Lawrence (playing of Taps).  Tom Moody, Chairman of the Board of Historic Riverside Cemetery Conservancy, read aloud the name and military service of the 50 veterans who have been interred at Riverside Cemetery since November 11, 2009.