Events for May 8 – July 4, 2023 – Wichita Veterans Memorial Park
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Commemoration of the 76th anniversary of D-Day

A wreath will be laid at the World War Two Memorial in honor of those Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen who participated in the Allied Invasion of Europe, also known as the D-Day invasion of Normandy of June 6, 1944. Special prayers will be said...

Independence Day Commemoration

Wichita Veterans Memorial Park 339 Veterans Parkway, Wichitai, KS

There will be American flags, a gun salute, the playing of "Taps" and other appropriate songs on the trumpet.

Tolling of the Boats

Conducted at the SS Dorado Memorial in Wichita Veterans Memorial Park. Officiated by the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc. The name of each USN Submarine lost will be read with: Where it was lost, When it was lost, How many hands were aboard when it...

2020 Veterans Day Ceremony with playing of “Taps”

Wichita Veterans Memorial Park 339 Veterans Parkway, Wichitai, KS

This year's program will be in conjunction with the National Salute to Veterans which is timed to match the program at Arlington Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns.  This year's ceremony will start precisely at 1055 to allow for the intro to end before Taps is...

Veterans Day Family Celebration – Canceled

Wichita Veterans Memorial Park 339 Veterans Parkway, Wichitai, KS

Reason for the cancellation was a result of but not limited to the announcement by Sedgwick County Government that the “Face Covering and Social Distancing” order was extended to the third week in November and as such the program had to be cancelled.  

Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration

Wichita Veterans Memorial Park 339 Veterans Parkway, Wichitai, KS

"Taps" will be played on the bugle and a memorial wreath will be laid at the Pearl Harbor Memorial.