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Veterans Day events in full force for, beyond this weekend

By Steve Palisin

spalisin@thesunnews.com
This photo show a “Remembrance of War Heroes” display assembled more than a decade ago by Thomas Gardner, whose 21 years in the Army included the Vietnam War. He turns 80 on Dec. 1. See the display, which also has nighttime lights, at 62 Offshore Drive, Garden City Beach, in the Windjammer Village mobile home park, off U.S. 17 Business, just south of Jensen’s Retirement Community, across from the Texas Roadhouse restaurant.
This photo show a “Remembrance of War Heroes” display assembled more than a decade ago by Thomas Gardner, whose 21 years in the Army included the Vietnam War. He turns 80 on Dec. 1. See the display, which also has nighttime lights, at 62 Offshore Drive, Garden City Beach, in the Windjammer Village mobile home park, off U.S. 17 Business, just south of Jensen’s Retirement Community, across from the Texas Roadhouse restaurant. Courtesy photo

Veterans Day marks a sunny, fitting way to start this weekend, with a bunch of celebrations this Friday thorugh Sunday, and two other events also booked for Wednesday and Thursday next week.

Take your pick of ways to salute and thanks to everyone who has served or is serving in our nation’s military, stateside and around the world.

The service by the Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 925 Grand Strand, at 11 a.m. Friday outside the Old Horry County Courthouse, on Third Avenue in Conway, will include dedication of an in-memory stone, for service personnel who died after their tours in Vietnam.

Two screenings will roll on Friday. The Museum of Coastal Carolina, in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., will show “Honor Flight: One Last Mission” at 2 p.m., a documentary centering on four World War II veterans who made a day trip earlier this decade from Milwaukee to the war memorials in Washington, D.C. Also, the 13th annual “Salute to American Veterans” will include the including premiere of “Men of Honor – Freddie Stowers and Alvin York: Duty and Courage in the First World War,” at 7:30 p.m. in Coastal Carolina University’s Wheelwright Auditorium, off U.S. 501 in Conway.

Blue Star Mothers of Coastal Carolina will have an all-you-can-eat roast starting at noon Saturday at American Tavern, 702 S.C. 544, Conway, just south of U.S. 501. Also, this group, along with Rolling Thunder SC4 and Warrior Watch Riders of South Carolina, has sales of wreaths for Wreaths Across America, for placement at noon Dec. 17 across Florence National Cemetery. The wreaths are $15 each, and for every two wreaths ordered, a third is provided for free.

Other get-togethers include a Veterans Day Celebration and post-traumatic stress disorder fundraiser, 12:30 p.m. Sunday at The Refuge, 290 Dunn Shortcut Road, Conway, and a 100th birthday celebration for Jerry Butler – an Army veteran from World War II who survived an enemy torpedo strike while aboard a Navy ship in March 1943 – at 6 p.m. Nov. 17 at the Burgess Community Center.

Check out this area list of events, nearby:

Contact STEVE PALISIN at 843-444-1764.

This story was originally published November 10, 2016 at 1:00 PM with the headline "Veterans Day events in full force for, beyond this weekend."

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