ARMED FORCES

ARMED FORCES

VETERANS

Pearl Harbor Day

CANFIELD

AMVETS Post 44 will conduct its annual Pearl Harbor Day observance Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Mahoning Veterans Memorial at the Canfield Fairgrounds, state Route 46. There will be a short program followed by a wreath laying and a light lunch. The public is invited.

Wreaths for graves

CANFIELD

On Saturday , members of the Ohio State University Extension Master Gardeners Program, in partnership with Wreaths Across America Day, will place fresh evergreen wreaths at the grave sites of 32 veterans at Dean Hill Cemetery on Palmyra Road in Canfield. There will be a ceremony at 9:30 a.m.

This is the third year the master gardeners have put wreaths they purchased or prepared themselves on veterans’ graves, the last two at Zion Cemetery in Boardman, said David Goerig, county agriculture and natural resources educator for the OSU Extension office.

This year, Wreaths Across America, started by the Worchester Wreath Co. in Maine, is providing and delivering the wreaths free. Each wreath will have a bow and a card thanking the veteran for his or her service, Goerig said. The wreaths will be removed in the spring, he said.

For more information on the veteran remembrance ceremony contact Bill Snyder at the Ohio State University Extension Office at 330-533-5538 or visit mahoning.osu.edu.

Portraits sought for WWII exhibition

NEW ORLEANS

The Museum of Jewish Heritage’s award-winning exhibition, “Ours To Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War,” is on display at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans through April 24.

“Ours To Fight For” examines how the war was experienced by Jewish men and women who served in America’s military, on and off the battlefield, through the voices of soldiers and sailors, airmen and Marines, WACs and WAVEs presented in video, audio and as written “labels” drawn from more than 400 interviews conducted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage.

In an effort to honor Jewish World War II veterans, The National World War II Museum is seeking portraits of these veterans for display on a Wall of Honor during the run of the exhibit. For more information and portrait specifications, contact Curator Kim Guise at 504-528-1944, ext. 530. The museum requests that the public not mail or drop off portraits without first speaking to a curator.

PROMOTIONS

New officer

Jennifer L. Houle graduated from Officer Candidate School (OCS) at Fort Benning, Ga., and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army.

Houle has served in the military for seven years. Her husband, Shane, is the son of Larry Houle of Sharon, Pa. In 1997, Lt. Houle graduated from Chautauqua Lake High School, Mayville, N.Y., and received a bachelor’s degree in 2002 from the State University of New York at Fredonia.

DEPLOYED

In Afghanistan

Army Pfc. Daniel McMurray, formerly of Austintown, was deployed to Afghanistan in October. His wife, Tina, and their daughter, Shelby, live in Watertown, N.Y.

McMurray is the son of Jeffrey and Cindy (Weaver) McMurray of North Carolina, both of whom are graduates of Boardman High School. McMurray is the grandson of Ruth McMurray and the late David McMurray of Boardman, and Phyllis and Donald “Huck” Weaver of Canfield.

BASIC TRAINING GRADS

Air Force: Airman 1st Class Tyler L. Mosholder (Wellsville High School, ’10), son of Tom Mosholder of Rogers, and nephew of Tonda Ross of Wellsville.

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