Westminster 2012
Memorial Day Celebration
Calendar of Events -
145th Anniversary
Saturday, May 26
* 9 a.m.-2 p.m. -Antique car show on the City of Westminster
parking lot in front of City Hall, Longwell Avenue, Westminster. Entries by the
AACA Gettysburg Region Antique Car Club, the Street Cars of Desire and the Free
State Corvette Club.
* Noon-5 p.m. - Carroll County Farm Museum - Military
reenactors depicting the life and times of soldiers during the War of 1812, the
Civil War, World War I, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert
Storm, Kuwait and other conflicts. There will be demonstrations and displays
and encampments. Also jeep rides for kids and a rock climbing wall. Free
admission to events.
* 3 p.m. - Carroll County Farm Museum - music concert
featuring the Westminster Municipal Band and the Old Line Statesmen Barbershop
Group.
* 4-7 p.m. - Fried chicken dinner and entertainment at the
VFW Post, 519 Poole Road. Cost is $8 adults; $5 children ages 3 to 8. For
tickets, call 410-848-9888, Ext. 1, or Deb Carns at 443-677-0361.
* 7-11 p.m. - Heroes Dance at the VFW Post. Ticket $5; call
410-848-9888, Ext. 1, or 443-677-0361.
Sunday, May 27
* Noon-5 p.m. -Events at the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500
S. Center St., Westminster, continue with 20th century military reenactors,
jeep rides and a rock climbing wall. Free admission to events.
* 3 p.m. - Band concert at the Carroll County Farm Museum
featuring the Winters Mill High School Band and Joe and Audrey Cimino
performing patriotic songs.
Monday, May 28
* 9:30 a.m.-Noon -145th Memorial Day Parade, from
Pennsylvania Avenue to Main Street to the Westminster Cemetery. At the
conclusion of the parade observance held at the cemetery with comments by grand
marshal Commander Matthew Shipley, USN.
* 2 p.m. - Memorial Day service at VFW Post, 519 Poole Road,
with guest speaker, retired Army Chaplain Col. Joel Cocklin, a Westminster
native who graduated from Westminster High School in 1965. Also an open house,
refreshments and special music. Call 443-677-0361 for details.
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Eagle Archive: Wampler's life of service made him an apt
participant on #Westminster #Memorial Day http://tinyurl.com/7vojfmx
Atlee Wampler was a tall man who maintained a military
bearing forged in heavy combat throughout WWII, all his life
Wampler served as the #Westminster #Carroll Co #Memorial Day
parade marshall from 1947 until his death in 1991 http://tinyurl.com/7vojfmx
By Kevin Dayhoff, May 19, 2012 http://twitpic.com/9pbno6 http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0520-20120519,0,5649787.story
On May 28, Carroll County and Westminster will mark the 145th
observance of Memorial Day with an expanded parade and three-days of
activities — thanks to all the hard work of American Legion Carroll Post No. 31 and leaders
like Skip Amass, coordinator of this year's activities.
The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster
began in 1868, when Mary Bostwick Shellman followed General John A. Logan's May
5, 1868, General Order No. 11 — which called upon people to adorn the graves of
Union soldiers with flowers.
She gathered a group of schoolchildren for that task, and
they walked from the old schoolhouse on Center Street to Westminster Cemetery.
As with all the many stories in Carroll, the hands and
hearts of countless individuals and community organizations have guided and
nurtured the observances over the years. The list is long and celebrated.
However, one of the names historically synonymous with
Memorial Day is particularly worthy of note — Atlee Willis Wampler Jr… READ
MORE: http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0520-20120519,0,5649787.story
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Reflections on #Memorial Day by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/br3hams The Tentacle
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The Tentacle Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Reflections on
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
The Tentacle Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Reflections on
#Memorial Day by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/br3hams
Next Monday is Memorial Day. For many it is more than a
holiday, it is a day when we gather as a community to express our gratitude to
our country’s men and women in uniform, who by their sacrifice cannot be with
us to enjoy the day… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5122
This year, Westminster and Carroll County will
mark its 145th
observance of Memorial Day with an expanded parade and four-days of
activities.
The tradition of the parade and ceremony in Westminster
began in 1868, when Mary Bostwick Shellman followed General John A. Logan’s May
5, 1868, General Order No. 11 to adorn the graves of Union soldiers with
flowers. She gathered a group of schoolchildren for the task and they walked
from the old schoolhouse on Center Street to Westminster Cemetery.
[…]
Last
week I wrote about a local community leader, Atlee Willis Wampler,
Jr., who served as the Westminster Memorial Day parade marshal for more than 44
years, from just after World War II until he passed away March 11, 1991.
[…]
That said, I have grown exhausted with the gut-wrenching
existentialism and overwhelming fatigue that accompanies covering
military funerals for the paper.
I was quite struck by a May 6 article in The Washington
Post by Ian Shapira, “Barbara Robbins: A slain CIA secretary’s life
and death,” about a little-known Vietnam War casualty from a bombing that
occurred in Saigon March 30, 1965.
According to the article, “The CIA director revealed only a
few details about the 21-year-old woman, a secretary among spies. In the
agency’s annual memorial service for employees killed on the job, then-Director
Leon E. Panetta announced that a new name had been inscribed with calligraphy
inside the CIA’s
Book of Honor: Barbara Annette Robbins, who had volunteered to go to Saigon
during the Vietnam War…
[…]
The story of Ms. Robbins is compelling and evocative. Yet
for me, what I found particularly haunting was the black
and white picture of a very young American, in a far-off land, defending
our freedoms, staring right at us.
The Tentacle Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Reflections on
#Memorial Day by Kevin E. Dayhoff http://tinyurl.com/br3hams
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'Skip' Amass leads the charge for Westminster's 145th
Memorial Day observance
Keeping the focus on community, service ... and good weather
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Not long after the sun comes up on Memorial Day, and hours before Westminster's 145th
Memorial Day parade kicks off at 9:30 a.m., Arnold "Skip" Amass will
be on site, helping set up the TV cameras and tying up last-minute loose ends.
Most of all, he'll be praying for good weather during an
event that he's been busy planning almost from the moment that last year's
144th Memorial Day parade wrapped up.
"To give you some idea of the scope of this project,
the committee that's working on this with me has about 145 people on it,"
said Amass, who for the past 15 years has also been the voice of the parade,
providing commentary for Carroll County's public access TV channel
19's live coverage of the event.
This is the first year he's taken on the far more demanding
role of principal coordinator.
"The people on the committee, who meet at the American Legion, represent just about every organization
and every government in the county, including the library, the farm museum, the
police departments," said Amass, 80, himself a Korean War veteran and long-time member of
Westminster's Carroll Post 31 American Legion Post… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/ph-ce-skip-amass-0604-20120523,0,1578592,full.story
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