FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 06/19/2017
Veterans Memorial Park Pensacola
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850.449.4023

 

 

 

 

Memorial Brick Dedication Ceremony
Honoring the Fallen Marines of

 

 

 

 

 

 During practice for an airshow in Smyrna, Tennessee, on June 2, 2016, Blue Angel pilot Marine Capt Jeff Kuss was killed when his F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet impacted the ground.

 

 The August 19 ceremony will include family members and friends of the fallen, active duty service members and Veterans. It will be open to the public. Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola President, Captain Butch Hansen, USN ret., will preside over the ceremony, and the keynote speaker will be Col Don Chipman, Commanding Officer of Marine Aviation Training Support Group-23 aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola. The ceremony will include the unveiling of three memorial bricks placed at the base of the Marine Aviation Memorial Bell Tower to commemorate the above losses to our nation and provide a permanent place of remembrance of these fallen Marines.

 

 ABOUT THE MARINE AVIATION MEMORIAL BELL TOWER

 

 ABOUT VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK OF PENSACOLA

The Veterans Memorial Park of Pensacola honors the memory of those who sacrificed their lives in the service and defense of the United States. In showing by example the sacrifice that love and duty sometimes require of a free people, they placed themselves in the deeply grateful hearts and eternal memory of all Americans. Veterans Memorial Park exists as a place of repose for, and veneration of, the spirits of our fallen warriors, a place forever to be kept free of discord and contention.