SEA ISLE CITY – Sea Isle City’s 2011 Memorial Day Ceremony was the most well-attended in recent memory. With over 300 residents and visitors assembled at Veterans Park on Landis Avenue, the ceremony, which was led by Sea Isle City Mayor Leonard Desiderio, included many veterans, local religious leaders and other special guests. Among the dignitaries present were Cape May County Clerk Rita Fulginiti and Cape May County Militia members Tom Rock, Bernard Becker and Daniel Goldman.
Under sunny skies, the ceremony began when Mayor Desiderio stepped to the podium and welcomed the event’s guests and spectators to Veterans Park. Next, an invocation was read by Deacon Liam O’Clisham of Sea Isle’s Saint Joseph Catholic Church before a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance was led by the members of Boys Scout Troop 76. The ceremony also included the placement of wreaths in front of the park’s Memorial Fountain in honor of American war casualties, a roll-call of Sea Isle’s honored dead read by VFW Post 1963 Commander Charles Haines, several patriotic songs rendered by local veteran Russell Briggs, the playing of Taps by Boy Scout Troop 76, the reading of a prayer by VFW Post 1963 Chaplain Bud Brady and a benediction read by Pastor Barbara Frohock of Sea Isle’s United Methodist Church.
After the ceremony at Veterans Park, the scouts and the members of VFW Post 1963’s Color Guard led a procession to the beach, where flowers were set adrift at sea in honor of the nation’s naval dead. At that point, the Cape May County Militia fired a 21-gun salute into the air.
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