Veteran’s Memorials & their Preservation

What it mean’s to me and why I do itBy Historical Memorial Preservationist

Marion (Mick) Hersey

Elizabeth Ellington WSDAR Marker, Manette Bridge

4th Street Memorial

Mayor Lent at the rededication of the 4th street Memorial from the Elizabeth

Ellington Chapter of WSDAR

William Bremer MemorialThis is the condition that I found the Namesake

Memorial of our Town. I asked to have it moved away from the parking garage to the Boardwalk downtown

and refurbished it.

Restored Monument

Gun & Park CleanupCrewmembers from the Deck Department of the USS Ronald Reagan

volunteer to clean up the park and paint and preserve the signal battery at Evergreen Park, site of WWI Memorial and the set of Guns at Illahee

Park

View Front ParkBefore and after cleanup of the plaque

USS Stennis COMREL Project Fall 2013

What happens when we do not take care of themThe Airframes Dept of USS Ronald Reagan assisted me in repairing the trailing edge of the F-8 Crusader

Repairing & Refurbishing

Condition of F-8 at startEnsuring the proper name & spacing of lettering

Final restoration

Veteran’s Memorial Park, Port Orchard

2014

USS Turner Joy Gift Shop

Poulsbo Veteran’s Memorial

Mast of the USS Bremerton

Retsil Veteran’s Home

Veteran’s Home Cemetery

Honor & Remembrance

Memorial Day Flag Replacement

• Raising the American flag to full Mast at 12:00 noon, retiring the existing flag and replacing it with a new flag donated from Lowes Hardware

Retiring of the FlagRetirement will be at NAD Park at 15:00 (3:00) All flags will be collected and returned to me for proper retirement at a Flag

Retirement Ceremony held by Local Boy Scouts