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Memorial Day 2023

Leanne R (Potomac Falls Marching Panthers) sounding 'Taps'.

Thanks again to our keynote speaker, Fr. Mark E. Moretti (Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church).

Thanks also to the Reverend Steve Hall, to the Aldersgate Choir, to Scouts BSA Troop 956, and to the Greater Loudoun County American Legion Honor Guard for helping with our Memorial Day ceremony.

Here's the link to the Memorial Day 2023 Picture Gallery


In Flanders Fields





In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

John McCrae








America the Beautiful

Lyrics by Katharine Lee Bates, music by Samuel A. Ward

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!


Memorial Day 2022

Leanne R and Brandon B (Potomac Falls Marching Panthers) sounding 'Echo Taps'.

Thanks again to our keynote speaker, Anthony Barnes (Military and Veterans Affairs Manager, 10th District of Virginia, U.S. House of Representatives).

Thanks also to the Reverend Steve Hall, to the Aldersgate Choir, to Scouts BSA Troop 955 and Troop 956, and to the Greater Loudoun County American Legion Honor Guard for helping with our Memorial Day ceremony.

Here's the link to the Memorial Day 2022 Picture Gallery


Memorial Day 2021

Leanne R (Potomac Falls Marching Panthers) sounds Taps.

Thanks again to our keynote speaker, the Honorable Jennifer Wexton.

Thanks also to the Reverend Steve Hall, to the Aldersgate Choir, to Scouts BSA Troop 955 and Troop 956, and to the Greater Loudoun County American Legion Honor Guard for helping with our Memorial Day ceremony today.

Here's the link to the Memorial Day 2021 Picture Gallery


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