Memorial Day Events Around the Midlands

9:08 PM, May 27, 2012   |    comments
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(WLTX) - It's Memorial Day weekend, and events are scheduled to commemorate the holiday.

Here's a list of events that News19 has learned of:

Monday May 28

Fort Jackson National Cemetery Ceremony

4170 Percival Road

Columbia

9 a.m.

Keynote Speaker: Brigadier General Bryan T. Roberts, Commanding General, United States Army Training Center and Fort Jackson

Memorial Day Ceremony

General George Mabry Memorial Park

(Hwy 378/76 (just west of Sumter, prior to Shaw AFB)

11:00 a.m.

Keynote speaker is Lt. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, US 3rd Army.  

VFW Memorial Day Commemoration 

950 Rock-N-Creek Road

Batesburg-Leesville, SC 

Event commemorates 70th anniversary of both the Doolittle Raid and the opening of the Columbia Army Air Base (CAAB), now the Columbia Metropolitan Airport.

Memorial Day Service

Heyward AME Church

983 Old State Road

Sandy Run

10 a.m.

Church will be putting flags on graves of veterans
followed by breakfast with veterans, other church members.

Lower Richland County Memorial Day Celebration

Historic Harriet Barber House

116 Barberville Loop,

Hopkins

Event begins at 11 a.m.

Free Memorial Day Concert

Palmetto Concert Band Memorial Day Concert 

Koger Center for The Arts

1051 Greene Street,

Columbia

Event begins at 7:30 p.m.

Sponsored by the City of Columbia and the University of South Carolina.