Remembrance Committee to Mark Sept. 11 Anniversary
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Jennifer [email protected]
The ceremony is at 6:30 p.m. at the 9/11 memorial outside Center Lake Pavilion.
Speakers include Bob Conley, Kosciusko County commissioner, and James Marshall, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputy.
Singers include Ed Rock, Kosciusko County Emergency Management Services director, with “The National Anthem”; Brad Kellar, Warsaw Police Department detective, with “God Bless The USA”; and Bruce Lippe, Warsaw Community High School student, who will sing “Where Were You.”
Warsaw Boy Scout Troop 715 will lead the Pledge of Allegiance, and Indiana Guard Reserve will present and post the colors.
Ken Locke, 9/11 committee member, will provide a prayer.
Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion Post 49 have been invited to attend as well as Indiana Patriot Guard Riders, American Legion Riders, Marine Riders and American Bikers Aimed Towards Education.
Mike Cox and Cathy Reed are 9/11 committee co-chairs.
“It’s important that all members of the community remember and understand the tragedy that happened that day. It was an attack on not just American soil, but American citizens, and was intended to stop our financial system from working and make people afraid to go outside,” Cox said. “Since then we have showed that doesn’t work, but that doesn’t mean we are not subject to another attack.”
Cox said it also is important to remember and honor Indiana law enforcement officers who have died and whose names are on the 9/11 memorial outside Center Lake Pavilion.
Names on the 9/11 memorial are: Harold Shepler, Joseph Bauer, Phillip Hochstetler and Jason Beal.
Shepler, a former Warsaw Fire Department firefighter, died in 1930 while responding to a house fire on East Center Street.
Bauer, a former Kosciusko County Sheriff's Dept. chief deputy, died in 1954 on Christmas Eve in a traffic accident.
Hochstetler, a former KCSD detective sergeant, died in 1994 while interviewing a suspect about a burglary.
Beal, a former Indiana State Police Trooper, died in 2000 after he stopped to assist a wrecker operator who was pulling a car out of a ditch. As the two men worked along Ind. 14, the driver of a passing vehicle lost control of her car on the icy roadway, striking and killing the trooper.[[In-content Ad]]
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The ceremony is at 6:30 p.m. at the 9/11 memorial outside Center Lake Pavilion.
Speakers include Bob Conley, Kosciusko County commissioner, and James Marshall, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department deputy.
Singers include Ed Rock, Kosciusko County Emergency Management Services director, with “The National Anthem”; Brad Kellar, Warsaw Police Department detective, with “God Bless The USA”; and Bruce Lippe, Warsaw Community High School student, who will sing “Where Were You.”
Warsaw Boy Scout Troop 715 will lead the Pledge of Allegiance, and Indiana Guard Reserve will present and post the colors.
Ken Locke, 9/11 committee member, will provide a prayer.
Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion Post 49 have been invited to attend as well as Indiana Patriot Guard Riders, American Legion Riders, Marine Riders and American Bikers Aimed Towards Education.
Mike Cox and Cathy Reed are 9/11 committee co-chairs.
“It’s important that all members of the community remember and understand the tragedy that happened that day. It was an attack on not just American soil, but American citizens, and was intended to stop our financial system from working and make people afraid to go outside,” Cox said. “Since then we have showed that doesn’t work, but that doesn’t mean we are not subject to another attack.”
Cox said it also is important to remember and honor Indiana law enforcement officers who have died and whose names are on the 9/11 memorial outside Center Lake Pavilion.
Names on the 9/11 memorial are: Harold Shepler, Joseph Bauer, Phillip Hochstetler and Jason Beal.
Shepler, a former Warsaw Fire Department firefighter, died in 1930 while responding to a house fire on East Center Street.
Bauer, a former Kosciusko County Sheriff's Dept. chief deputy, died in 1954 on Christmas Eve in a traffic accident.
Hochstetler, a former KCSD detective sergeant, died in 1994 while interviewing a suspect about a burglary.
Beal, a former Indiana State Police Trooper, died in 2000 after he stopped to assist a wrecker operator who was pulling a car out of a ditch. As the two men worked along Ind. 14, the driver of a passing vehicle lost control of her car on the icy roadway, striking and killing the trooper.[[In-content Ad]]
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