Get your flags ready Walpole! Monday is the day we honor our veterans and dedicate our new memorial on the Common! Thanks to Bruce Martin, here is the schedule of events...
10:30 a.m. Veterans form up at American Legion Bridge Wilson Post #77 and march to the Walpole Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street.
11:00 a.m. Upon arrival of the Fall Mountain Regional High School Band, the parade begins north on Main Street, west on Westminster Street and south on Washington Street.
When the band and spectators reach the Common, they will be joined at the south side of the new bandstand by an honor guard of Walpole Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts and an color guard.
Robert Casper, USN Ret., will give the Memorial Day Address followed by the laying of a wreath on the new Veterans Memorial, firing of a salute by a Vermont National Guard Unit, taps, dedicatory comments on the new Memorial by Project Director Bruce Martin, and a closing prayer.
11:45 Adjournment to the Town Hall for punch and cookies for the public. CCB
