Memorial Day Observance 2025

Our annual Memorial Day ceremony pays tribute to the fallen men and women who gave their lives in service to our Nation.

Join us as welcome guest speaker Cindy Parsons who credits her son, United States Army Sergeant Shane Parsons, as her inspiration to do more with life. While deployed in Iraq in 2006, Shane’s convoy was hit with an improvised explosive device. Shane suffered catastrophic injuries that included multiple cardiac arrests, a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), a severed left leg, and an amputation of his right leg. His mother, Cindy, left her job as a registered nurse and flew across the world to be with her son while he underwent 15 surgeries and battled multiple infections. For the next decade, Cindy served as Shane’s primary caregiver and learned first-hand the challenges faced by the family members of injured veterans.

Her passion for helping others led her to become a strong advocate for the family support members of other wounded warriors. In 2009, Cindy helped Wounded Warrior Project ® (WWP) lobby Congress for the passage of the Caregiver and Veteran Omnibus Health Service Act of 2010 – a bill providing assistance and support for caregivers of injured servicemen and women returning from war.

During the ceremony, the Memorial’s latest addition, a bronze plaque to the 2nd Infantry Division and the latest installment of bricks to the Annie J. Bronson Veterans Memorial Walk will be dedicated.

Free admission until noon. Guided tours begin at 1PM. Please bring your own chair. No food in plaza. No pets (service animals welcome).