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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><i><b>Beaver County War Memorial Dedication Ceremony</b></i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><i><b><span class="gmail_default">Honoring Our Fallen </span><br></b></i></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><i><b>11 June 2022 </b></i></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)"><i><b>Beaver Falls,PA</b></i></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The
Patriot Guard Riders have been invited, to stand in silent honor by
Flag Line for the Beaver County War Memorial Dedication Ceremony,
honoring Beaver County's<span class="gmail_default"> </span>Fallen Heroes from<span class="gmail_default"> the Gulf War and the War on Terror.<br></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><i><b>Honor Roll Call</b></i></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Major John W. Macroglou U.S. Marine Corps<span class="gmail_default"> KIA,</span><span class="gmail_default"> age 34</span> <span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default">of </span>Center Townshi<span class="gmail_default">p,PA</span></b></i></span></div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">Assigned</span><span class="gmail_default"> to the </span>24TH M<span class="gmail_default">arine</span> <span class="gmail_default">Amphibious</span> U<span class="gmail_default">nit Camp </span>L<span class="gmail_default">e</span>J<span class="gmail_default">e</span><span class="gmail_default">une</span>, NC<span class="gmail_default">.,</span><span class="gmail_default"> Marine Corp </span><span class="gmail_default">Battalion</span> <span class="gmail_default">Landing</span><span class="gmail_default"> Team </span>1-8<span class="gmail_default"> Beirut.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default">Major Macroglou was one of the 241</span><span class="gmail_default"> Fallen Heroes</span> who lost their lives<span class="gmail_default"></span> <span class="gmail_default">on the 23 of October</span><span class="gmail_default"> of </span>1983<span class="gmail_default">, the bombing of the </span><span class="gmail_default">U</span>.S. Marines Corps<span class="gmail_default"> Beirut Barracks</span> in Beirut, Lebanon during
the Lebanese Civil War. Two truck bombs<span class="gmail_default"> </span>detonated by suicide bombers<span class="gmail_default"> and</span><span class="gmail_default"></span>
struck buildings that housed U.S.<span class="gmail_default"> </span>and French <span class="gmail_default">M</span>ilitary members of a
multinational peacekeeping force, killing a total of 299 service
personnel (241 American<span class="gmail_default"></span>, 58 French), along with six civilians and the
two suicide bombers. It was the deadliest single-day attack against U.S.
Marines since the battle over Iwo Jima in 1945. </span></div><div dir="auto">
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dedicated in 1984 on the first
anniversary of the attack, <span class="gmail_default">a</span> <span class="gmail_default"></span>Memorial<span class="gmail_default"> of our Fallen</span> is<span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default"> </span>located beneath a cedar tree
in Section 59<span class="gmail_default"> at Arlington Cemetery</span>. Its inscription reads,<span class="gmail_default"> "Let Peace Take Root"</span>. This cedar of Lebanon <span class="gmail_default">T</span>ree grows in living memory of the Americans
killed in the Beirut <span class="gmail_default">T</span>errorist <span class="gmail_default">A</span>ttack and all victims of terrorism
throughout the world<span class="gmail_default">. </span><span class="gmail_default">21</span> U.S. service<span class="gmail_default"> members</span> killed
in the<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default">Beirut Barracks <span class="gmail_default">Attack</span>
</span> are buried near the marker. All are in Section 59<span class="gmail_default">, Arlington National Cemetery.<br></span></span></p>
</div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Private First Class Timothy R. Brown Jr. U.S. Army<span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default"> KIA, age 21</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span>of Conway,P<span class="gmail_default">A</span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">A</span>ssigned to D Company, 519th Military Intelligence
Battalion, Fort Bragg, <span class="gmail_default">NC. </span><span class="gmail_default">was</span> killed<span class="gmail_default"> in action</span>
by an explosive device while
traveling in a convoy in Taji, Iraq<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default">the </span><span class="gmail_default">12 of August 2003.</span></span>
</div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b><br></b></i></span><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sergeant Ernest G. Bucklew of Darlington, U.S. Army<span class="gmail_default"> KIA </span>,<span class="gmail_default"> age 33</span><span class="gmail_default"></span> of Enon Valley, P<span class="gmail_default">A</span></span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">A</span>ssigned to Support Squadron, 3rd Armored
Cavalry Regiment, Fort Carson, C<span class="gmail_default">O. was </span>killed<span class="gmail_default"> in action</span><span class="gmail_default"> from</span> an attack on a
CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq<span class="gmail_default">,</span>
<span class="gmail_default"> the</span><span class="gmail_default"> 2nd of November of 2003.</span></span>
</div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b><span class="gmail_default">Specialist </span>Shawn M. Davies, U.S. Army<span class="gmail_default">, age 22 of Aliquippa,</span> <span class="gmail_default"></span>Hopewell Township<span class="gmail_default">,PA</span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">A</span>ssigned to the 4th Battalion, 5th Air Defense
Artillery, 1st Cavalry Division Regiment, Fort Hood,T<span class="gmail_default">X.</span><span class="gmail_default"> passed</span><span class="gmail_default">
<span class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail_default">on the</span> <span class="gmail_default">8th of </span>July <span class="gmail_default">2004 </span></span>from</span> a non-combat related illness in Baghda<span class="gmail_default">d, Iraq.
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</div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Private Dylan R. Paytas U.S. Army<span class="gmail_default"> KIA, </span><span class="gmail_default">age 20</span> of Freedom, P<span class="gmail_default">A</span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">A</span>ssigned to the 3rd Brigade Troops Battalion, 3rd
Infantry Division, Fort Benning, G<span class="gmail_default">A</span>.<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default">passed
<span class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail_default">on the 16th of November 2005</span></span> from injuries sustained from multiple gunshot wounds in Baqubah, Iraq.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Sergeant Allan R. Bevington, U.S. Army<span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default"> KIA, age 22</span> of Beaver Falls<span class="gmail_default">, PA</span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b><span class="gmail_default"></span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b><span class="gmail_default">A</span>ssigned to 40th Engineer Battalion, 2nd
Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany<span class="gmail_default"> passed on </span><span class="gmail_default">the 21st of </span><span class="gmail_default">September</span><span class="gmail_default"> 2006</span> of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near<span class="gmail_default"> </span>him during combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq.</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b><br></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Sergeant Joshua J. Rimer, U.S. Army<span class="gmail_default"> KIA</span><span class="gmail_default">, age 24</span> of New Sewickley Township,<span class="gmail_default">PA</span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">Assigned to the 4th Engineer Battalion, Fort
Carson, CO. passed on the 22nd of July 2009 of wounds
suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle
<span class="gmail_default">in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.</span>
</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Sergeant Robert C. Sisson Jr., U.S.<span class="gmail_default"> Army,</span><span class="gmail_default"> age
29 of Aliquippa, PA</span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default">Assigned to 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry
Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Carson, CO passed on 21 February 2011
<span class="gmail_default"> in a non-combat
incident</span> in Saryah Kalach, Afghanistan.</span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Staff Sergeant Dylan J. Elchin. U.S. Air Force<span class="gmail_default"> KIA, age 25 </span>of Beaver and Hookstown,<span class="gmail_default">PA</span></b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"> A</span>ssigned to the 26th Special Tactics
Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexic<span class="gmail_default">o and was killed in action</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span>by an improvised explosive
device in Ghazni province, Afghanistan<span class="gmail_default"> the 18th of November 2018.</span><span class="gmail_default"> <br></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b><span class="gmail_default">Also with SSgt Dylan J. Elchin:</span></b></i><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b>Capt<span class="gmail_default">ain</span> Andrew Patrick Ross<span class="gmail_default"> USA KIA</span>,<span class="gmail_default"> age 29</span><span class="gmail_default"> of Lexington, VA</span><br></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b>S<span class="gmail_default">ergeant First </span>Class Eric Michael Emond<span class="gmail_default"> USA KIA age</span>
39, of Brush Prairie, Washington
</b></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><b>S<span class="gmail_default">ergeant</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span>Jason Mitchell McClary</b><span class="gmail_default"><b> USA KIA, age 24 of Export, PA</b><br></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></div></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Please join us to <span class="gmail_default"></span>Honor<span class="gmail_default"> Our </span>Fallen<span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default">, </span><span class="gmail_default">a</span>ll served our country with honor, it's now our turn to honor them.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Saturday, 11 June 2022</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><i><b>Staging:</b></i></span> 9:15 AM</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Veterans Park</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">3838 37th St, Beaver Falls, PA 15010</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/h3LiBj2PkbV1RPG46" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://maps.app.goo.gl/h3LiBj2PkbV1RPG46</a></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><i><b>Briefing: </b></i></span>9:30 AM</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Flag Line:</span> </b></i></span>9:45 AM</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><i><b>Ceremony at 10:00 AM</b></i></span></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Members
can attend all of a mission or any part of the mission. PGR sets no
time for a member to escort and or stand a mission. We Thank you for
whatever time you give us and the families of our heroes appreciate your
time.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><i><b>Also, Before heading out please watch the weather, dress accordingly and bring your 3×5 hand held American flags.</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><i><b>RCIC: </b></i></span><i><b>Randy Ruff</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:randyaruff@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">randyaruff@gmail.com</a></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">(412) 613-2109</span></div>
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