ERMA – At 10:13 a.m. Sept. 27, many students from Lower Cape May Regional High School participated in a brief memorial for fallen member of the Class of 2005, Sgt. Michael Scusa.
He was remembered at Hero Marker 116, by the front entrance to the school during the New Jersey Run for the Fallen.
The band of runners had begun their 190-plus mile run from Cape May to Holmdel earlier in the day. Prior to arriving at the high school they had made other stops from Sunset Boulevard to West Cape May and to Sandman Consolidated School.
Joining the ceremony was Scusa’s brother, James Woodard and his family, wife, Allison Woodard and children Caden and Leea Woodard and Jenna Logue.
The school choir performed “God Bless America” after Staff Sgt. Melanie Leventhal, U.S. Army Reserve, placed a flag by the Scusa memorial plaque. Leventhal is a per-diem aide in the district.
As part of the ceremony the names of two Vietnam War service members, who had attended Lower Cape May Regional, were read:
William C. Lamon, who attended from 1961-63, Marine Corps, E-3, killed in action March 16, 1967 at Khe Sahn Hill 861.
Edward Rowe Smiley, who attended 1965-1968 and graduated, Army, E-4, killed in action Dec. 4, 1969 in a helicopter crash.
Superintendent Christopher Kobik said he planned to ask the school board that night for permission to seek donations for plaques for the two Vietnam War casualties to be placed on the school’s Roll of Honor.
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