On behalf of the Upper Cumberland Veteran's Hall I would like to welcome all of you this morning for this time of remembering the soldiers who have served their country and have gone on to their glorious rewards. But because there is a power greater than any soldier or even any army, we owe our first allegiance to God, so we begin our memorial with prayer. I'd like to to ask Ronald Dishman the Overton Co. historian to open our service.
Prayer - Ronald Dishman, Overton Co. Historian
Raising the flag - Highland Brigade, with Tommy Phillips bugler
Star-Spangled Banner - Janet Wiggins, singer
History of Memorial Day - Bill Speck
DAR speaker - Dutch Warren
We are Your Veterans (by David Chaltas) - Mike Wilson
Ragged-Old Flag (by Johnny Cash) - Joy Brown
Charge to Confederate Veterans (by Stephen D. Lee) - Mike Wilson
God Bless America - Jessica & Briana Cox, singers
Flanders Fields, WWI tribute - Dutch Warren for the Chamber of Commerce
Why I am UDC - Matilda Speck
They Stand - Betty Aronson Laying of Wreath - Dutch Warren representing DAR, Betty
Aronson representing OCR, and Matilda Speck representing UDC will lay the
wreath at the monument in honor of those who gave their lives for their country
** Katelyn's Flower Shop in Gainesboro - donation of the wreath**
U.S. Traditions in Military Salutes (the 21 gun salute, riderless horse, boots
backward in the stirrups, Taps) - Ed Butler
Gun salute - Highlalnd Brigade: Mike Davis, Tommy Phillips, Adam Dickson, Larry
Gunnels, John Halsell, John Andrew Glasscock
Taps - Highland Brigade bugler Tommy Phillips
Door prizes - Violet Cooper, OCR Rosebud and CofC, drawing for the prizes
Vonda - Thank you for coming, etc. with an invitation to visit Veteran's Hall
Glenn Jones - update on the future plans for Veterans Hall
Door prizes: catfish dinner @ Town Diner, catfish for 2 @ City Cafe,
Candy dish from the antique store with jewelry asst. Carol Poteet, and 2 anvil paper weights from Ann Thompson - both are venders at Pappy's Picket Fence
sub from Sub-Way, dinner for 2 @ Helen's Restaurant, vase from OCR, haircut from Dixie Cuts
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Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Highland Brigade - Mike Wilson, Comm.
Participating camps and locations:
Gainesboro Invinsibles: Mike Wilson, Comm., Mike Davis, John Andrew Glasscock
Myers-Zollicoffer, Livingston: Bill Speck, Comm., Larry Gunnels, Tommy Phillips, John
Halsell, Ron Dishman
Dillard-Judd, Cookeville: Ed Butler
Gen. Geo. Dibbrell, Sparta: Adam Dickson
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) - Dutch Warren
Order of Confederate Rose (OCR) - Aunt Polly Eaton Williams Chapter, Gainesboro:
Vonda Dixon, Betty Aronson and OCR Rosebud, Violet Cooper
United Daughter of the Confederacy (UDC) Capt. Sallie Tompkins Chapter, Cookeville - Matilda Speck,
Betty Aronson, Vonda Dixon and Children of the Confederacy (CofC) - Violet Cooper |