Garner will have a Memorial Day observance this year and you can see it, even though there will be no traditional gathering of people at the Garner Veterans Memorial.
Show N Tell Ministries, a local non-profit, has produced a 33-minute observance that will be televised on the community access channel and will be available on YouTube, Facebook and through social media. It will be shown at 11 a.m., and 7 p.m., on the access channel and occasionally in the days to come.
(Watch the video above or click here: https://youtu.be/kcabbl2M3WY)
The program features music, film clips from Show N Tell’s historical plays about Garner, and narration about the 66 community men who were killed while in the military service. U.S. Marines Col. Samuel Lee Meyer is the principle speaker. Jimmy Stevens is the narrator.
The video includes music by Steve Amerson, who is known as America’s tenor; Marty Long, The Hall Sisters and Rozlyn Sorrell.
The Garner Veterans Memorial serves as the nexus year-round for remembrance of its fallen soldiers.
“The video came together pretty quickly, in less than a week,” said Tim Stevens, the Show N Tell founder. “I wanted to have something to give to the community to help celebrate Memorial Day. There are some parts I’d like to change, but I think it will have an impact on people.”
Show N Tell also has placed 66 United States flags along the walking trail at Lake Benson Park. Most of the flags have dog tags with the name of one of the community men who were killed while in the military.
“The flags are just a reminder of why we have Memorial Day,” Stevens said. “We’ve been putting the flags up near the memorial on Memorial Day and July 4th for a few years, but moved them to the path last year.“
Garner’s Hall sisters.
Show N Tell also organizes the wreath laying ceremony and Gold Star tree at the Memorial in December and annually produces the Garner Veterans Memorial Salute to the Troops, usually in May.
This year, Salute to the Troops and the Memorial Day observance are rolled into the video event.
Show N Tell currently is producing a virtual July 3rd community celebration that will be shown on cable access and through social media.