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Retired Army Lt. Gen. Sinn to speak at Minot’s Memorial Day program

Area programs also planned

Eloise Ogden/MDN Minot’s Memorial Day program will be held on Monday at the original Veterans Section in Rosehill Memorial Park in Minot, shown in this photo taken Thursday.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Jerry L. Sinn, vice president for finance and administration, and corporate treasurer of the Association of the U.S. Army, will give the address at Minot’s Memorial Day program at 10:30 a.m. at the original Veterans Section in Rosehill Memorial Park on Monday.

A 1963 graduate of Garrison High School, after being drafted Sinn spent nearly four decades in uniform, beginning as a “tunnel rat” in Vietnam and retiring in 2006 as the Army’s budget chief. His last several years in uniform were spent at the Pentagon. He worked in the private sector before joining the Association of the U.S. Army, a private nonprofit organization that acts primarily as an advocacy group for the Army. He is the son of John Sinn who lives in Minot and the late Olive Sinn.

Richard Reuer will be master of ceremonies for the program. Others in the program will include the Minot veterans organizations and auxiliaries, the Rev. David Heintzleman and Steve Veikley. The William G. Carroll American Legion Post #26 is in charge of the ceremony.

Prior to the program on Monday, the strewing of the flowers ceremony will be conducted at 8 a.m. by the American Legion Post #26 Auxiliary at the Veterans Memorial Walkway, formerly the Eighth Street NW Bridge. The strewing of the flowers and ashes of unserviceable flags are done in remembrance of the soldiers, sailors and Marines lost at sea.

The American Legion Post #26 and Boy Scout Troop 437 will hold their annual Memorial Day pancake breakfast from 7-11 a.m. in the American Legion Post #26 Club at 1949 N. Broadway. A $5 donation will be accepted The breakfast is open to the public.

Other Memorial Day programs are planned in area communities on Monday including:

– DRAKE: The program will be held at 10:30 a.m. in Drake City Hall with Master Sgt. Chris Stroup of Minot Air Force Base as speaker. Lunch will follow the cemetery program. The public is welcome.

– HARVEY: Community band will play beginning at 10:15 followed by a program at 10:30 a.m. in the Harvey City Hall. Pastor Greg Longtin of Fair Lutheran Church, Harvey, is guest speaker. Others on the program include Harvey veterans groups and auxiliaries, Boy Scouts and Meghan Graumann. Military honors and laying of wreaths will be conducted at Veterans Park. Harvey Public Library will serve noon lunch after the program.

– SHERWOOD: American Legion Bothun-Peterson Post 213 will conduct Memorial Day. This is the 80th annual celebration of Memorial Day services that are conducted with Canadian counterparts. In 1937, military veterans from Sherwood, who were then members of the Legion Post in Mohall because Sherwood did not have an active Legion Post, celebrated the first Memorial Day at the New White Theater. A Canadian attended that ceremony and the following year, 1938, joint forces from the U. S. and Canada began a tradition that is still carried on today.

This years’ day will begin at 10:15 a.m. with the flag ceremony at the U.S./Canada border. A program at the Sherwood School gymnasium will begin at 11 a.m. Col. Colin J. Connor, commander of the 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base is guest speaker. Representatives from the National American Legion in Indianapolis, state American Legion in Fargo and Western Region vice commander from Watford City will be attending. A parade down Main Street with a stop at the Firemen’s Memorial for a wreath-laying ceremony will follow the program at the school. The final ceremony is at the Sherwood Union Cemetery, where wreaths are laid at the Unknown Soldier memorial. The American Legion Auxiliary will provide a lunch at the Sherwood Memorial Hall.

– WILLOW CITY: Michael Carswell, who is retired from the Air Force, will speak at the 10 a.m. program in the Willow City Community Hall. A meal will be available after the program.

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