GENESEE COUNTY/Veterans Day Ceremonies for November 11th

VETERANS DAY CEREMONIES SCHEDULE FOR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2024

9:00 AM-GENESEE COUNTY PARK (VVA)
10:00 AM-BATAVIA VAMC
10:15 AM-NYS VETERANS HOME
11:00 AM-UPTON MONUMENT
11:30 AM-JEROME CENTER(UMMC) MONUMENT

ORGANIZATIONS PARTICIPATING:
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF GENESEE COUNTY
GENESEE COUNTY AMERICAN LEGION POSTS
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA – Chapter #193

GENESEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS HOSTING A VETERAN’S DAY SERVICE ON NOV, 11, 2024, 1PM TO 2PM.

LEROY AMERICAN LEGION POST 576 WILL BE HAVING A CEREMONY AT TRIGON PARK AT 1100am.

Program for Veteran’s Day in LeRoy-2024
All available Botts-Fiorito Post #576, American Legion are invited to attend and participate
in the annual Veteran’s Day Observance to be conducted at Trigon Memorial Park.

The remembrance for 2024 will honor and recognize “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month” with a program as follows:

Coffee and doughnuts will be offered at the Post Home prior to the ceremony, beginning at 0945 hrs.
Participants are asked to meet at the Legion no later than 1015 hrs. for a briefing;

Ceremony at Trigon Memorial Park
 Honor Guard and Firing Squad to assemble at the Monument by 1045 hrs.!
(Uniform of the Day will be Gold braid and Ascot)
 Commander David Rumsey and Auxiliary President Tia Petrie-Caccamise will make
presentations commemorating this solemn event, followed by placement of the memorial
Wreath.
 This will be followed by a reading from Chaplain Gary Bassett.
 The program will conclude with a volley by the Post Firing Squad and the playing of “Taps” by
Samantha Platek.
 This year we will dedicate a new flagpole at the St. Mark’s cemetery, at the corner of St. Marks
Street and Church Street. We will adjourn to the cemetery immediately following the Trigon
Park Ceremony.
 Refreshments of coffee and doughnuts will be served at the Post Home by the Post Auxiliary
following…