A Celebration of Service: Honoring Pennsylvania Veterans
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(Scroll below these current and classic photos of the event)
The 28th Infantry Division has been honoring its service members at their National Shrine for over 70 years. Each spring, on the third Sunday in May, Guardsmen and women from the Division gather together to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice .
A 2010 Color Guard marches towards the Shrine. Photo Credit PAANG ca.2010
Photo Credit PAANG ca.2010
Guardsmen prepare to lay the wreaths. Photo Credit PAANG ca.2010
Major General Randall R. Marchi, Commanding General 28th Infantry Division (Mechanized), and the Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, Major General Jessica L. Wright, perform a hand salute in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Pennsylvania National Guard. Photo Credit PAANG ca.2010
Major General Jessica Wright was the keynote speaker at the 2008 event.
Flag bearers march past the newly rennovated Military Museum in 2005.
A Chinook hovers above the parade grounds in 2008 with the Boalsburg Lutheran Church in the background.
The same Chinook in the previous photo sprials upward in a vertical take-off from the grounds.
A salute battery from the 109th Field Artillery out of Wilkes-Barre fires its guns at the 2009 service.
This event takes place rain or shine always on the 3rd Sunday of May.