We have received numerous emails and requests from different veteran motorcycle groups from around the area. Due to the installation motorcycle policy dealing with proper motorcycle safety training, these groups will meet at the Army Education Center Bldg 100 parking lot just off post and will be escorted by DES to the front gate and to the event. You must be at the Bldg 100 parking lot by 1115 and the motorcycle escort will leave the parking lot by 1130.
For persons wishing to attend the ceremony and who do not have a post sticker, you can arrive at any of the installations gates and after presenting proper identification and proof of insurance, you will be given a temporary installation pass. If you do not know where Cottrell Field is located, please ask the gate guards and they will provide you will directions. Event signs will be posted around the installation.
The ceremony will begin at 1200 noon. The ceremony will begin with a moment of silence in honor of all of our fallen heros. The National Anthem will then be performed. This will be followed by an invocation and a poem written and read by Mrs Reese Bishop. MG Tony Cucolo, 3ID Commander, will be our guest speaker as the Ft. Stewart honor guard stands solemnly by. Following the benediction, the narrator will announce the placement of the wreaths in this order; first, family members in attendance will be asked to come forward and take a wreath and go to the tree of their loved one; then Unit representatives or FRG members in attendance will be asked to come forward and take a wreath and go to the trees of their fallen soldiers; then all other persons in attendance will be asked to come forward and take a wreath and go place the wreath at the tree of a fallen soldier. There will only be one wreath per tree and the wreaths will remain in place through out the holiday season.
