Memorial Day Services were held in Port Allegany with a Bridge Ceremony for those lost at sea, followed by a service at the VMI Pavilion. 

The Brooklynside Bridge ceremony was led by Chuck Yeager with Roy Kio and the Port Allegany Honor Guard and Dan Dzubak dropping flower petals into the water to remember those lost at sea.  .  

The ceremony at the VMI was also led by Chuck Yeager and included the Port Allegany Honor Guard.  A roll call was done,  remembering the following:

World War I – Frank G. Burt, Charles Burch, Orlo Chafee, William F. Dunn, Fay Fessenden, Gregg Green, Glenn Henderson, Edwin Johnson, Hilding Johnson, Eldredge King, Collins Thomas, Charles Lambert, Lawrence Meacham, Harold O’Connor, Floyd Main, Arthur L. Nelson, Thomas Smith and Elmwood Wicks.  

World War II – Roland B. Johnson, Lt. Floyd E. Card, Staff Sgt. Nelson McCloskey, Staff Sgt. George Modsko, Pfc. Harold Jackson, PVT. Max Chilson, Virgil Kinney, Pfc. George Papageorgiou, Fred Brockel, Lt. James McMahon, Walter Van Scooter, Pvt. Paul Conner, Lt. James Shevak, Pvt. Donald Gustafson, Pfc., Jack Ness, S 2-c. Gail Chapin, Pvt. William Haglund, Daniel Reed, Pvt. Herbert Dolaway, Cpl. Eldene Bosworth and Pfc. Charles Tully.  

Viet Nam – Floyd Studer, Gerrith Kibbe and Albert C. Bachman, Jr.

Non-war years, Active Duty – Peacetime:

Austin P. Duffy, Joel Gamble, Lt. Wesley VanDorn, Robert Razey, George Luce, Jerry Thomas, Theodore Ireland, Lt. William Daisley, Jr.,

Iraq War – Lt. Col. Richard Berrettini

A picnic lunch followed the ceremony and was hosted by the VMI Auxiliary.  

Pictured:  Chuck Yeager (right) and Roy Kio (left) with the Port Allegany Honor Guard; Dan Dzubak releasing flower petals into the water.

Pictured:  Chuck Yeager, speaker for the ceremony, is pictured with the Port Allegany Honor Guard at the VMI Memorial Day Ceremony.