From traditional ceremonies to new initiatives, local American Legions and Legion Family members in Kenai and Soldotna hold Memorial Day Services each year to remember those who have served. This year on Monday, May 27th, Memorial Day will have many local services to commemorate the U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in the United States armed forces. In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, many government and business offices will be closed.
The Kenai American Legion Post 20 and Soldotna VFW Post 10046 announced Memorial Day Services on Monday:
- 11:00 AM Kenai Cemetery – AVENUE OF FLAGS
- 1:00 PM Lief Hanson Park in Kenai – MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE
- 2:00 PM Post 20 — OPEN HOUSE
- Following the service at Kenai Cemetary, memorials will continue at Soldotna Creek Park- PURPLE HEART and IRON MIKE MEMORIAL LAYING OF WREATHS
Ron Holman, Commander of the local American Legion, encouraged any and all to pay homage to those lost by either attending one of these Memorial Day events or visiting one of the many burial sites of our fallen heroes:
“We appreciate that if you are not available to come out and watch. What it encourage you to do is go by the cemetery, look for the bronze plaques of veterans, look for the headstones, the white marble headstones, put a stone, put a penny. It means somebody knows, somebody visits, somebody recognizes their sacrifice. Because without their sacrifice. We don’t have Memorial Day. We don’t have America.”
According to the National Moment of Remembrance Act, passed in 2000, Americans are asked to pause whatever they are doing at 3 p.m., local time, to remember those who sacrificed for the freedoms of the United States of America.
Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday in the month of May.