At 7:00 p.m. in Reading City Park
at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
we will be holding a Candlelight Vigil.
It is sponsored by the
POW/MIA Forget-Me-Nots
and the
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 131.
The program will be three things combined as one:
1) On Friday, September 15, 2017 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
* We will recognize those who are still missing and unaccounted for from all wars.
* From Vietnam we have three Berks County Brothers;
we will honor each of them.
Angstadt – Dugan - Pannabecker
2) It is the 29th Anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
in City Park. (September 24, 1988)
* We will read the names engraved on the stone.
There are 62 men who are war dead and 3 who are POW/MIA’s.
* A rose will be laid for each of them in remembrance
of their ultimate sacrifice for our country.
3) We will be doing an Agent Orange Remembrance.
* On our Wall and the Wall in Washington D. C.
it lists those who were killed during the Vietnam War.
The list was completed on May 15, 1975.
* Since then thousands more have died
from war related injuries, sickness and diseases related
to the exposure to Agent Orange.
* Their names are not engraved anywhere
but we need to remember these “Hero’s” also.
* We will be going year by year from 1975 to 2017, remembering those we lost.
The crowd gathered at the Vigil will mention the names of family,
friends & fellow soldiers they knew personally
who have died since they were back home.
Please join us for this very moving and touching ceremony.
“THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN” because “WE REMEMBER”
at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
we will be holding a Candlelight Vigil.
It is sponsored by the
POW/MIA Forget-Me-Nots
and the
Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 131.
The program will be three things combined as one:
1) On Friday, September 15, 2017 is National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
* We will recognize those who are still missing and unaccounted for from all wars.
* From Vietnam we have three Berks County Brothers;
we will honor each of them.
Angstadt – Dugan - Pannabecker
2) It is the 29th Anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
in City Park. (September 24, 1988)
* We will read the names engraved on the stone.
There are 62 men who are war dead and 3 who are POW/MIA’s.
* A rose will be laid for each of them in remembrance
of their ultimate sacrifice for our country.
3) We will be doing an Agent Orange Remembrance.
* On our Wall and the Wall in Washington D. C.
it lists those who were killed during the Vietnam War.
The list was completed on May 15, 1975.
* Since then thousands more have died
from war related injuries, sickness and diseases related
to the exposure to Agent Orange.
* Their names are not engraved anywhere
but we need to remember these “Hero’s” also.
* We will be going year by year from 1975 to 2017, remembering those we lost.
The crowd gathered at the Vigil will mention the names of family,
friends & fellow soldiers they knew personally
who have died since they were back home.
Please join us for this very moving and touching ceremony.
“THEY ARE NOT FORGOTTEN” because “WE REMEMBER”
