Memorial Day Flags IN At State Veterans Cemetery
On Saturday, May 25, 2024, starting at 9:00am sharp at the CT. State Veterans Cemetery located on Bow Lane in Middletown, approximately 12,700 American Flags for Memorial Day will be placed to honor and show respect at the final resting place of those Veterans that are no longer with us who served our Country.
Retrieval of the Flags will be the following week, Saturday, June 1st at 9:00am weather permitting.
Veteran groups, Scout Troops, Youth Groups, Public, Community Organizations, and all that have assisted all these years in honoring and remembering those Veterans who served our Country are welcome to show their sacrifices are “NOT FORGOTTEN”.
Please come out and support our Veterans and say THANK YOU for all they have done.
Flags will be onsite and you do not need to register or call, just please show up by 9:00am on Saturday, May 25th, RAIN OR SHINE….
Memorial Day Ceremonies will be held at the Cemetery on May 27th at 2:00pm.
ALSO, donations will be collected for Wreaths Across America Wreaths that will be placed in December. Last year we met our goal of Remembrance Wreaths that were available to be placed on the final resting place of those Veterans allowed to receive one.
The cost of purchasing a Wreath is $17.00 per Wreath. Donations collected will be used to purchase the buy two (2) and receive a third Wreath free.
You can click on the link below and you will be able to make a donation directly to make our goal. If unable to click the link, copy it and paste it into your browser and it will take you directly to the donation page for the Wreaths for the CT. Veterans Cemetery in Middletown located on Bow Lane. This is a direct link that will ensure your donation will go directly to the Middletown Veterans Cemetery or with your cell phone use the QR code.
https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/150231
Thank you
Michael Rogalsky
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Michael Rogalsky
Vietnam Veteran nam_vet68@hotmail.com
Location: Bow Lane,
Middletown CT
I am not a veteran. I am a member of the Civil Air Patrol, the United States Air Force Auxiliary. But in 1991, personal loss brought me to a place I never left.
Over two decades later, that loss led me to the State Veterans Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut, where I took on the coordination of Wreaths Across America — which grew into the largest and fastest growing veterans program in the state. I didn’t do it for recognition. I did it for them.
In 2016 I founded the Connecticut Veterans Bulletin. Not because I served, but because I believe those who did deserve to be honored, connected, and kept alive.
Twenty-two veterans die by suicide every day. I knew about that number before it became a hashtag. I knew it personally, long before anyone was talking about it.
This publication exists because that number is unacceptable. Because every veteran in Connecticut deserves to know someone gives a damn.
That someone is me.
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