Independence Day Commemoration
Wichita Veterans Memorial Park 339 Veterans Parkway, Wichita, KS, United StatesThere will be American flags, a gun salute, the playing of "Taps" and other appropriate songs on the trumpet.
There will be American flags, a gun salute, the playing of "Taps" and other appropriate songs on the trumpet.
Gather at the Korean War Memorial.
Canceled due to changing travel restrictions, etc associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus situation.
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...
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...
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.
"Taps" will be played on the bugle and a memorial wreath will be laid at the Pearl Harbor Memorial.
Approximately a one hour ceremony occurring simultaneously with other WAA ceremonies around the country. This local ceremony will include: Full military honors (USAF color guard, "Taps" played live, etc) 7 wreaths mounted (1 for each branch of US military and for POWs-MIAs)
New recruits will take their oaths of enlistment in Wichita Veterans Memorial Park. "I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith...