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Community to honor fallen heroes

The community is invited to Jim's Awards and Citations include
honor those who have given their 2 Army Achievement medals and the
lives in service to our country as the State of Michigan Legion of Merit.
city of Wayne and the Wayne Veterans “The city of Wayne is honored and
Memorial Committee hold its first privileged to recognize the men and
annual Memorial Day Ceremony at women who have served in our
the new Veterans Memorial located armed forces and those who con-
next to City Hall at 3355 South tinue to serve,” said Mayor John
Wayne Road on Monday, May 31st. Rhaesa. “This Memorial Day, the
The ceremony will begin at 10:00 City will gather with our fellow citi-
a.m. with the hour long event featur- zens to pause and reflect on those
ing: who have made the ultimate sacrifice
to protect our freedoms. We invite all
• Featured speaker Jim Hart, to come and join us for this special
Staff Sergeant United States Army, tribute at the Wayne Veterans Memo-
Veteran rial.”
• The Wayne Memorial High Social distancing protocols will
School Zebra Marching Band under be in place and therefore, attendees
the direction of Michael Wolf, Direc- are asked to wear a facial covering.
tor of Bands and Orchestras, will Those who attend are encouraged to
perform the Star Spangled Banner arrive early and bring a folding chair.
and select numbers during the pro- Parking is available in the City Hall
gram. The city of Wayne and the Wayne Veterans Memorial Committee hold its first annual parking lot and in adjacent public
• A performance of Taps by a Memorial Day Ceremony at the new Veterans Memorial located next to City Hall at parking lots near the Veterans Me-
member of the Wayne Memorial High morial.
School Zebra Marching Band. 3355 South Wayne Road on Monday, May 31st.
• A reading of In Flanders Fields, Jim's duty stations have been at Ft total, Jim served a combined 15 *Some aspects of the event
Stanley Shelton, United States Army, Detrick MD, where he was part of the years of service in the US Army and could be altered due to the COVID-
Veteran ongoing real world mission of sup- achieved the Rank of Staff Sergeant. 19 pandemic.*
• Wreath placements at the five porting the Military District of Wash-
armed services monuments by area ington, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
Veterans. Pentagon, and the Department of De-
• An opening and closing prayer fense. Second was at Camp Red
by CrossPointe Community Church Cloud, South Korea where he
Lead Pastor, Bobby Kelly. worked the Tech Control facility in
the CRC Bunker and managed all
The featured speaker, Jim Hart, communications from US opera-
joined the Army in March of 1995 tions from the DMZ south to Seoul.
and arrived to Basic Training in Au- Last, Jim was assigned to Ft Bragg,
gust later the same year. Jim at- NC where he served with the 51st
tended Basic Training at Ft Jackson, Signal Battalion Airborne.
SC and then went on to his Ad- After Active Duty, Jim served with
vanced Training in Microwave the Michigan Army National Guard
Telecommunications and Tech Con- in Ypsilanti MI and then the US
trol Operations at Ft Gordon, GA. Army Reserves in Ann Arbor, MI. In

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