Memorial Day commemoration, Granger, TX, 27 May 2024

[markwells]

Confirmed Mission: The Patriot Guard Riders have been invited to participate in a community Memorial Day commemoration event at Granger High School. The event will held outdoors on Memorial Day. We plan to have a flag line in place for the 30 minute program of patriotic music, the pledge, reading of the names of Granger’s lost warriors, and the playing of taps.

Date/Time: Monday, 27 May 2024. The event begins at 8:30 am.

Staging location: Granger Food Mart Texaco, 309 S Commerce St, Granger, TX 76530.  Map link

Timeline:
7:45 – 8:10 am – Staging
8:10 am – Briefing
8:15 am – KSU for the 4 minute ride to the school.
8:25 am – Flag line in place for the event

Wx: Partly cloudy, high 96F.

Notes: After arrival at the school we will dismount and form a flag line for the duration of the program. Coffee and donuts are offered afterward at the nearby Sts. Cyril & Methodius Recreation Center.

Ride Captain: Mark Wells, atxpgr@gmail.com, 512-470-0380
Flag Wrangler: Gary Mayers

Please attend to commemorate the sacrifice of our honored dead.

[markwells]

An overcast and muggy morning for the six Patriots who formed a flag line at the Granger Memorial Day service. The local American Legion post opened the program by raising the flag to half-mast at the memorial, which was installed in 1949 and is engraved with the names of Granger’s KIA heroes since WWI. The program lasted about 25 minutes and was closed by the most beautiful performance of live taps I’ve ever heard, performed by a bugler who drove all the way from San Antonio for the event.

A couple of us joined those in attendance for coffee and donuts afterward. Thank you to Gary for bringing the flags, and thank you to American Legion Post 282 and the City of Granger for again inviting us to this event. Small town patriotism gives one hope.

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