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Middletown Veterans Day Parade Is This Sunday
And Saturday, Middletown Westminster Presbyterian Church will hold a Field of Flags service where Fox News' Pete Hegseth will speak.
MIDDLETOWN, NJ — Middletown's annual Veterans Day parade will be held from 12 to 2 p.m. this Sunday, November 7.
The parade route starts at Bayview Elementary School on Leonardville Road and then proceeds to Cherry Tree Farm Rd to Wilson Ave. to Garrett Place, ending at the Middletown VFW Hall on Hwy. 36.
There will be periodic road closures along the parade route. Expect delays. Use alternate routes.
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And this Saturday, Nov. 6, Middletown's Westminster Presbyterian Church will hold this Field of Flags memorial service to honor servicemen and women killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The church has done this every year for the past 12 years.
Fox News host Pete Hegseth will be the keynote speaker. The event is open to all who want to attend.
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It begins at noon at the church on Tindall Road. They will be using Middletown High School North's parking lot, so there will be plenty of places for people to park.
Hegseth is a U.S. Army veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns; he has the ranking of Major. He is also the two-time recipient of the Bronze Star. He is the co-host of "Fox & Friends Weekend," and lives locally here in Monmouth County.
Members of the church and the Middletown community will place 7,053 flags on the lawn; each flag will represent a U.S. service member who was killed in the wars in in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In addition to Hegseth, remarks will also be offered by Captain Edward Callahan, commander at nearby Naval Weapons Station Earle. Greetings from Middletown Mayor Tony Perry and NJ-13 Assemblyman Gerry Scharfenberger will be offered.
Presentations will be made from the Middletown Boy and Girl Scouts troops.
172 men and women from New Jersey died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their names, branch of service and date of death will be displayed on a large board bordering the Field of Flags.
One of the names included this year, as always, will be Middletown native Dennis Zilinski, who was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2005.
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