Pictures from the past events can be found on the
POW/MIA tab under Candle Light Vigil
POW/MIA tab under Candle Light Vigil
On Friday, September 20, 2024 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 Reading High School Marine Corps JROTC will be presenting the colors.
The program will be three things combined as one:
1. On Friday, September 20, 2024 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 36th Anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in City Park. ( September 24th)
* 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 2024, 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”
It is sponsored by the POW/MIA Forget-Me-Nots and the Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 131.
The Reading High School Marine Corps JROTC will be presenting the colors.
The program will be three things combined as one:
1. On Friday, September 20, 2024 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 36th Anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in City Park. ( September 24th)
* 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 2024, 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”
