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Monday, May 29, 2017

150th annual Westminster Memorial Day parade and ceremonies


150th annual Westminster Memorial Day parade and ceremonies. May 29, 2017 Monday

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On Memorial Day Charles Harrison, Walter Groomes, and Doug
Battaglini shared thoughts about Vietnam

On Memorial Day about 25 folks gathered at the Carroll Co.
Vietnam Memorial, at the corner of Willis and Court Streets, in Westminster,
Md.

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 Westminster Md. - by Kevin Dayhoff

This year, about 25 folks gathered at the Carroll County
Vietnam Memorial, at the corner of Willis and Court Streets, in Westminster,
Md. right after the Westminster Memorial Day ceremonies at the Westminster
Cemetery May 29, 2017 in Westminster.

For several decades, a number of folks have gathered there,
every year on Memorial Day, for an impromptu ceremony at the large black
granite memorial with the names of the 18 fellow Carroll countian friends,
neighbors and loved ones who gave their lives in the service of our country
during the Vietnam War.

This year, Carroll County marked its 150th continuous annual
observance of Memorial Day with a parade and ceremonies at the Westminster
Cemetery. The annual tradition was first organized by Mary Bostwick Shellman on
May 30, 1868.

In May 2008, local writer and historian Carrie Ann Knauer
reported, “As best anyone can estimate, 182 Carroll countians have lost their
lives in the armed services during conflicts since 1917. But tracking exactly
how many have died — particularly those in earlier wars in America’s history —
is a difficult task, according to a local historian.”

The Carroll County Maryland Vietnam Memorial Park at the
corner of Willis and Court Street, next to the historic Courthouse was
dedicated on May 28, 1990. Every year at the Carroll County Vietnam Memorial,
we remember those who gave their lives and try to give them a voice.

This year, in a moving tribute about the war and how Vietnam
veterans were treated after the war, Vietnam combat veteran Walter Pete Groomes
poignantly shared some thoughts, with our keynote speaker Charles Harrison, and
my Westminster High School Class of 1971 classmate Doug Battaglini.

Both Battaglini and Groomes are held in high regard in the
community for their leadership roles. They serve as a rock or many Vietnam-era
veterans, whether they served in county, or like this writer, stateside.

After the war, Harrison continued to serve in the FBI, a
leader in the Carroll County NAACP, volunteer leadership roles with a community
focus group that served in an advisory role in the selection of a new
Westminster police chief in the early 2000s, and as an Orphan Court Judge, to
mention a few of his accomplishments.

In Vietnam, be served as a Captain in the U.S. Army as helicopter
pilot. His service earned him the Bronze Star.

The comments of Groomes, Battaglini, and Harrison, tied-in
with the moving remarks by Carroll County State’s Attorney Brian DeLeonardo,
the day before at the annual Pleasant Valley Memorial Day ceremonies. In a
moving presentation, DeLeonardo spoke about his late Dad, who served in
Vietnam. His Dad succumbed a number of years ago, at age 49, to complications
of his exposure to Agent Orange during the war.

What many attending the ceremonies found particularly moving
was his explanation, that for decades most Vietnam veterans never spoke of the
war, or their service to our country. This came as a result of the way most
Vietnam veterans were treated with disdain and scorn by much of society, and
especially the anti-war demonstrators.

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The Black Horse Regiment first arrived in South Vietnam at Vung Tau on
September 7, 1966. It was engaged in heavy combat and took heavy casualties
throughout the balance of the war.

Joseph Anthony Oreto was one of 730 members of the ACR lost
in Vietnam. He was 21-years old when he died for our country on April 13, 1969.

Oreto was stationed at the Bien Hoa Air Base, about 16-miles
above Saigon and killed in Tay Ninh Province up along the Cambodian border,
during Operation Toan Thang II. Otherwise known as the defense of Saigon, the
objective was a search and clear operation to discourage North Vietnamese Army
campsites and rocket positions within striking distance of Saigon.



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Monday, May 27, 2013

Eagle Archive ExploreCarroll.com: PFC Ronald Kenny, 18, Binh Dinh province Feb. 19, 1966

Eagle Archive ExploreCarroll.com: PFC Ronald Kenny, 18, Binh Dinh province Feb. 19, 1966 by Kevin Dayhoff http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/05/eagle-archive-explorecarrollcom-pfc_27.html

This Memorial Day we remember the service and sacrifice of a fallen son of Carroll, Ronald M. Kenny http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/05/eagle-archive-explorecarrollcom-pfc_27.html

My Memorial Day column this Sunday in the Carroll County section of the Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/, is Ron Kenny, a 1965 graduate from Robert Moton High School and the first son of Carroll to be killed in Vietnam… http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/05/eagle-archive-explorecarrollcom-pfc.html


In past Carroll Eagle Archives columns we have shared the stories of some of the eighteen fallen heroes from the Vietnam War who faces are etched in the black granite memorial in the Carroll County Vietnam Memorial Park on Willis Street.

The stories of Frederick John Magsamen, Christopher Jesse Miller, Jr., Stanley Groomes, Joseph William Blickenstaff, Herbert Eugene Mulkey, Jr., James Norman Byers and Sherman E. Flanagan, Jr., have been told.

I cannot imagine what Private Kenny went through. He was light weapons grunt and left Mount Airy Maryland in the idealistic mid-1960s to be dropped into the Battle of Battle of Ia Drang and then right into the Battle of Bong Son… Up against the NVA 22nd and the the Sao Vang - Yellow Star – Division, 2nd VC Main Force Regiment…

On November 17, 1966, the 7th Cavalry 2nd Battalion lost 150 American soldiers in 16 hours at LZ Albany northwest of Plei Me in the Central Highlands – 35 miles from Pleiku…

Kenny was killed in action in the ‘Iron Triangle’ region of Binh Dinh province, in Vietnam Feb. 19, 1966, along with Sgt. Elzie Jefferson Collins, Jr., and Sgt. Freddie Wallace Green. This was soon after the Battle of Bong Son – Operation Irving, January 28 to February 12, 1966.

Bong Son was essentially the second major battle of the war, not that long after the 5th Cavalry had been engaged in the Battle of Ia Drang, November 14-18, 1965, also in Binh Dinh. Many know Binh Dinh as where An Khe and Camp Radcliff were located – not far from Camp Holloway airfield at Pleiku.

Kenny had entered the Army following graduation. In November 1965 he was stationed in central-coastal Vietnam in an area remembered for its heavy combat and high American casualties at the time.

Kenny was deployed with C Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division; which can trace its roots as far back as 1855, when it was organized and deployed in Texas in the Native American Plains Wars. The 5th Calvary regiment participated in twelve campaigns in Vietnam.

The area known as the Iron Triangle was a heavily fortified position about 12-miles below Bong Son in the hills south and east of the Kim Son Valley, and was defended by a combined Viet Cong (VC) – North Vietnamese Army (NVA) force that included the Sao Vang - Yellow Star – Division, 2nd VC Main Force Regiment, and the acclaimed NVA 22nd Regiment.

We remember PFC Kenny. God Bless him. Memorial Day is important…

Very little has been written about Private First Class (PFC) Kenny. In my research I came across a You Tube, “An Khe, Vietnam; “Films of 1st Cavalry Air Mobile at An Khe, Vietnam, filmed between December 1965 and January 1966…” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD81o3yYwV0

“Films of 1st Cavalry (Air Mobile) at An Khe, Vietnam, filmed between December 1965 and January 1966. Films were done as part of a briefing for the Army leadership.”


Be sure to read more this Sunday in the Carroll County section of the Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/

Eagle Archive www.ExploreCarroll.com:  FC Ronald Kenny, 18, Binh Dinh province Feb. 19, 1966 by Kevin Dayhoff... http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/05/eagle-archive-explorecarrollcom-pfc.html

Eagle Archive www.ExploreCarroll.com:  FC Ronald Kenny, 18, Binh Dinh province Feb. 19, 1966 by Kevin Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/nvz7lvt

[Films of 1st Cavalry Air Mobile at An Khe, Vietnam, filmed between December 1965 and January 1966…]

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Charles Fisher Sr., 95, attorney and last surviving co-founder of Carroll Hospital Center, dies By Kevin Dayhoff, June 26, 2012 ... Department of Public Welfare during the day, and attended classes three evenings ... head of Westminster's annual Memorial Day parade with other local veterans ... John Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to St ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, May 26, 2012 ... will be remembered on the first Memorial Day since his death in January ... Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens' Memorial Day observance, in Timonium ... Valley has conducted an annual Memorial Day observance since 1967. The memorial ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, September 9, 2011 ... cookouts over the three-day Labor Day weekend, men and women ... have any memory of that day or weren't yet born ... attend one of the several memorial services that will take ... 11 anniversary, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, November 1, 2011 ... Shellman founded Westminster's Memorial Day Parade in 1868 ? today believed ... the longest continuously running Memorial Day parade in the country. She ... Arlington National Cemetery," the Memorial Day poem for Antietam Battlefield and ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, Carroll Eagle and Steve Kilar, Baltimore Sun, January 12, 2012 ... Base. "This is a tragic day for (Seidler's unit), and ... Interment will be later that day at Arlington National Cemetery ... join the military. In the days following news of Seidler ... payable to: The Matthew Seidler Memorial Fund, c/o Susquehanna Bank ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, January 7, 2012 ... no additional details were released. "This is a tragic day for (Seidler's unit), and especially for Matt's family ... the pride we'll feel when we see Matt's name on the EOD Memorial Wall at Eglin Air Force Base will not extinguish the sorrow ...


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Sunday, May 26, 2013

#MemorialDay at the Carroll County Vietnam Memorial To Thank those who serve

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Eagle Archive: Wampler's life of service made him an apt participant on Memorial Day By Kevin Dayhoff, May 19, 2012 ... and proud veteran. He was the Memorial Day parade marshal for more than 44 ... missed, but not forgotten. This Memorial Day, I'll be saying a prayer for ... sacrifice for our country, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff ...

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... cemetery when they attend the annual Memorial Day parade. The annual observance ... before, make plans to attend the Memorial Day ceremonies in Westminster. This ... the Westminster Cemetery, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at

By Kevin E. Dayhoff, January 12, 2013 ... A. P. Schultz, Monuments and Tombstones ... The good ole' days were indeed hard ... often took several days, and it was made ... microwave oven, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at ... A. P. Schultz, Monuments and Tombstones ... much easier than day-to-day life in ...

Charles Fisher Sr., 95, attorney and last surviving co-founder of Carroll Hospital Center, dies By Kevin Dayhoff, June 26, 2012 ... Department of Public Welfare during the day, and attended classes three evenings ... head of Westminster's annual Memorial Day parade with other local veterans ... John Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to St ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, May 26, 2012 ... will be remembered on the first Memorial Day since his death in January ... Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens' Memorial Day observance, in Timonium ... Valley has conducted an annual Memorial Day observance since 1967. The memorial ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, September 9, 2011 ... cookouts over the three-day Labor Day weekend, men and women ... have any memory of that day or weren't yet born ... attend one of the several memorial services that will take ... 11 anniversary, Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, November 1, 2011 ... Shellman founded Westminster's Memorial Day Parade in 1868 ? today believed ... the longest continuously running Memorial Day parade in the country. She ... Arlington National Cemetery," the Memorial Day poem for Antietam Battlefield and ...

By Kevin Dayhoff, Carroll Eagle and Steve Kilar, Baltimore Sun, January 12, 2012 ... Base. "This is a tragic day for (Seidler's unit), and ... Interment will be later that day at Arlington National Cemetery ... join the military. In the days following news of Seidler ... payable to: The Matthew Seidler Memorial Fund, c/o Susquehanna Bank ...


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Saturday, May 26, 2012

For #Memorial Day, we recall Air National Guard Lt. Col. Sherman E. Flanagan Jr loss in #Vietnam


Eagle Archive: For Memorial Day, we recall a fallen soldier who made sure we remembered others

By Kevin Dayhoff, May 26, 2012 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0527-20120526,0,2171783.story#tugs_story_display


In 1967, our community noted the 100th anniversary of Westminster's Memorial Day observances. According to local historian Jay Graybeal, who wrote about the occasion for the Historical Society of Carroll County in 1997, "Participants came from sixteen states and one newspaper estimated that the crowd numbered 15,000 people."

Ironically and tragically, it was just one year after that centennial celebration that Air National Guard Lt. Col. Sherman E. Flanagan Jr., 38, a Westminster attorney — and a member of the 100th anniversary committee — was shot down and killed while flying a mission over the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam on July 21, 1968. He was flying an F-100 "Super Sabre" jet fighter at the time of his death.

According to an article in The Baltimore Sun's Carroll County edition, "Flanagan was believed to be the first Guardsman to die in Vietnam who was called to duty during that period." … http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0527-20120526,0,2171783.story#tugs_story_display

For #Memorial Day, we recall Air National Guard Lt. Col. Sherman E. Flanagan Jr loss in #Vietnam

Eagle Archive: Wampler's life of service made him an apt participant on #Westminster #Memorial Day http://tinyurl.com/7vojfmx


Atlee Wampler was a tall man who maintained a military bearing forged in heavy combat throughout WWII, all his life

Wampler served as the #Westminster #Carroll Co #Memorial Day parade marshall from 1947 until his death in 1991 http://tinyurl.com/7vojfmx


On May 28, Carroll County and Westminster will mark the 145th observance of Memorial Day with an expanded parade and three-days of activities — thanks to all the hard work of American Legion Carroll Post No. 31 and leaders like Skip Amass, coordinator of this year's activities.

The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster began in 1868, when Mary Bostwick Shellman followed General John A. Logan's May 5, 1868, General Order No. 11 — which called upon people to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with flowers.

She gathered a group of schoolchildren for that task, and they walked from the old schoolhouse on Center Street to Westminster Cemetery.

As with all the many stories in Carroll, the hands and hearts of countless individuals and community organizations have guided and nurtured the observances over the years. The list is long and celebrated.

However, one of the names historically synonymous with Memorial Day is particularly worthy of note — Atlee Willis Wampler Jr… READ MORE: http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0520-20120519,0,5649787.story



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Next Monday is Memorial Day. For many it is more than a holiday, it is a day when we gather as a community to express our gratitude to our country’s men and women in uniform, who by their sacrifice cannot be with us to enjoy the day… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5122

This year, Westminster and Carroll County will mark its 145th observance of Memorial Day with an expanded parade and four-days of activities.

The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster began in 1868, when Mary Bostwick Shellman followed General John A. Logan’s May 5, 1868, General Order No. 11 to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with flowers. She gathered a group of schoolchildren for the task and they walked from the old schoolhouse on Center Street to Westminster Cemetery.

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Last week I wrote about a local community leader, Atlee Willis Wampler, Jr., who served as the Westminster Memorial Day parade marshal for more than 44 years, from just after World War II until he passed away March 11, 1991.

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That said, I have grown exhausted with the gut-wrenching existentialism and overwhelming fatigue that accompanies covering military funerals for the paper.

I was quite struck by a May 6 article in The Washington Post by Ian Shapira, “Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life and death,” about a little-known Vietnam War casualty from a bombing that occurred in Saigon March 30, 1965.

According to the article, “The CIA director revealed only a few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the agency’s annual memorial service for employees killed on the job, then-Director Leon E. Panetta announced that a new name had been inscribed with calligraphy inside the CIA’s Book of Honor: Barbara Annette Robbins, who had volunteered to go to Saigon during the Vietnam War…

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The story of Ms. Robbins is compelling and evocative. Yet for me, what I found particularly haunting was the black and white picture of a very young American, in a far-off land, defending our freedoms, staring right at us.


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'Skip' Amass leads the charge for Westminster's 145th Memorial Day observance


Keeping the focus on community, service ... and good weather



Not long after the sun comes up on Memorial Day, and hours before Westminster's 145th Memorial Day parade kicks off at 9:30 a.m., Arnold "Skip" Amass will be on site, helping set up the TV cameras and tying up last-minute loose ends.

Most of all, he'll be praying for good weather during an event that he's been busy planning almost from the moment that last year's 144th Memorial Day parade wrapped up.

"To give you some idea of the scope of this project, the committee that's working on this with me has about 145 people on it," said Amass, who for the past 15 years has also been the voice of the parade, providing commentary for Carroll County's public access TV channel 19's live coverage of the event.

This is the first year he's taken on the far more demanding role of principal coordinator.


"The people on the committee, who meet at the American Legion, represent just about every organization and every government in the county, including the library, the farm museum, the police departments," said Amass, 80, himself a Korean War veteran and long-time member of Westminster's Carroll Post 31 American Legion Post… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/ph-ce-skip-amass-0604-20120523,0,1578592,full.story

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#Westminster 2012 #Memorial Day Celebration Calendar of Events - 145th Anniversary

Westminster 2012 Memorial Day Celebration
Calendar of Events - 145th Anniversary

Saturday, May 26

* 9 a.m.-2 p.m. -Antique car show on the City of Westminster parking lot in front of City Hall, Longwell Avenue, Westminster. Entries by the AACA Gettysburg Region Antique Car Club, the Street Cars of Desire and the Free State Corvette Club.

* Noon-5 p.m. - Carroll County Farm Museum - Military reenactors depicting the life and times of soldiers during the War of 1812, the Civil War, World War I, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, Kuwait and other conflicts. There will be demonstrations and displays and encampments. Also jeep rides for kids and a rock climbing wall. Free admission to events.

* 3 p.m. - Carroll County Farm Museum - music concert featuring the Westminster Municipal Band and the Old Line Statesmen Barbershop Group.

* 4-7 p.m. - Fried chicken dinner and entertainment at the VFW Post, 519 Poole Road. Cost is $8 adults; $5 children ages 3 to 8. For tickets, call 410-848-9888, Ext. 1, or Deb Carns at 443-677-0361.

* 7-11 p.m. - Heroes Dance at the VFW Post. Ticket $5; call 410-848-9888, Ext. 1, or 443-677-0361.

Sunday, May 27

* Noon-5 p.m. -Events at the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St., Westminster, continue with 20th century military reenactors, jeep rides and a rock climbing wall. Free admission to events.

* 3 p.m. - Band concert at the Carroll County Farm Museum featuring the Winters Mill High School Band and Joe and Audrey Cimino performing patriotic songs.

Monday, May 28

* 9:30 a.m.-Noon -145th Memorial Day Parade, from Pennsylvania Avenue to Main Street to the Westminster Cemetery. At the conclusion of the parade observance held at the cemetery with comments by grand marshal Commander Matthew Shipley, USN.

* 2 p.m. - Memorial Day service at VFW Post, 519 Poole Road, with guest speaker, retired Army Chaplain Col. Joel Cocklin, a Westminster native who graduated from Westminster High School in 1965. Also an open house, refreshments and special music. Call 443-677-0361 for details.

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Memorial Day 2012 by Maryland State Senator Joe Getty

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