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Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation

A final tribute to the Veterans of our Armed Services who gave their all.

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Galen Seal, Original Foundation Board Member,

Laid to Rest at Miramar National Cemetery

Pallbearers move Colonel Seal’s casket into the memorial shelter.

(Dec. 10, 2019)  Galen E. Seal, Jr., an original member of the
Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation, was laid to rest, today,
following a family interment service at Miramar National Cemetery.  Seal, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, is
buried in Section 15, Grave 74, adjacent to the Flag Assembly area. 

Seal served as chairman of
the Support Foundations’ Memorials Committee, coordinating with four veteran’s
organizations – the Special Forces Association, Jewish War Veterans, Navy Nurse
Corps Association, and the Chosin Few – to place the first commemorative
monuments on the cemetery’s Memorial Walk in 2013.  

A U.S. Air Force honor guard fires a rifle salute [Continue Reading]

https://miramarcemetery.org/news/galen-seal-obituary/

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Support Foundation Chairman Dennis Schoville, former Army scout helicopter pilot, introduces former Army Pfc. Steve Brown, a helo air crewman who was instrumental in saving Schoville’s life when he was shot down and wounded during combat in Vietnam on Veterans Day 1969.

Veterans Day Service
Reunites Two Vietnam Veterans;

Pilot Shot Down
November 11, 1969, Rescued by Comrade

(Nov. 11, 2019) Two old soldiers were reunited on Veterans Day at Miramar National Cemetery. Vietnam veterans Dennis Schoville and Steve Brown are linked by a near tragedy that could have killed them both.  The date: Nov. 11, 1969 – 50 years ago to the day.

Vietnam veterans Steve Brown and Dennis Schoville.

When 1st Lt. Schoville, pilot
of an Army scout helicopter, was shot down [Continue Reading]

https://miramarcemetery.org/news/vet-day-ceremony-2019/

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DISABLED VETERAN AND RACE CAR DRIVER DUANE NORMANTO SPEAK AT VETERANS’ DAY SERVICE, NOVEMBER 11

Service will pay special tribute to
Vietnam Era veterans

Duane Norman

Retired Air Force Reservist Duane
Norman of Ramona, a disabled veteran and race car driver, will be the featured
speaker at the Veterans’ Day Service scheduled at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 11,
at Miramar National Cemetery. 

The Miramar National Cemetery Support
Foundation will sponsor the fourth annual Veterans’ Day Service, which will pay
special tribute to Vietnam Era veterans. 
The service will be held in the cemetery’s Flag Assembly Area at the
eastern end of the Avenue of Flags.  Veterans,
active-duty, their family members, and the public are invited.  Parking will be available along cemetery
streets.

Norman,
68, is a quadriplegic, having fractured his neck in [Continue Reading]

https://miramarcemetery.org/news/duane-norman/

New Director for Fort Rosecrans, Miramar National Cemeteries

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Jared D. Howard

Santa Fe National Cemetery Director Jared D. Howard Named Director of Fort Rosecrans, Miramar National Cemeteries 

 

Jared D. Howard, former director of Santa Fe National Cemetery, has been named director of the Fort Rosecrans and Miramar National Cemeteries, effective Sept. 29, 2019.  He will be responsible for all burial, maintenance, and administrative operations at both facilities.

Howard served as director of the Santa Fe cemetery from August 2017, and as the assistant director of that facility from August 2016.  He also oversaw all operations at Fort Bayard National Cemetery in Silver City, N.M.

Howard is a graduate of the National Cemetery Administration’s yearlong Cemetery Director Intern Program.  He joined NCA in November 2010 as a cemetery caretaker at the [Continue Reading]

Virtual Gala 2019

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Foundation Kicks Off 2019 Virtual Gala to benefit Miramar National Cemetery

Click Image to go to Gala website

(July 1, 2019)  With the success of fund drives for the
unique Avenue of Flags, the Veterans Tribute Tower & Carillon, and other
projects, the Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation is dedicating its
2019 Virtual Gala – launched July 1 –
toward donations for construction of a large amphitheater at Miramar National
Cemetery.

The amphitheater,
planned for the Flag Circle – the focal point of the cemetery – will include
permanent seating for audiences attending the Veterans Memorial Service,
Veterans’ Day ceremony, Wreaths Across America, and other events.

“The amphitheater
will be the largest, and most costly, undertaking the Foundation has made to
enhance the cemetery,” says Sallay Kim, Foundation Vice-President and chair of
the fourth annual [Continue Reading]

Memorial Day Service 2019

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Miramar Memorial Service Marks 75th Anniversary of D-Day, Pacific Battles

‘Determination, fighting spirit of American soldiers’

Corporal James Dawson plays “Taps” at the conclusion of the Veterans Memorial Service, May 26, at Miramar National Cemetery.

(May 26, 2019) With the 75th Anniversary of the World War II invasion of Normandy to be observed in June, the Veterans Memorial Service at Miramar National Cemetery was dedicated to remembrance of D-Day veterans, as well as to veterans of battles fought during June 1944 in the Pacific.

On June 6, 1944, said Sallay Kim, Vice-President of the Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation, which sponsors the annual service, 132,000 Allied soldiers landed on the beaches of Northern France. It was the largest invasion in [Continue Reading]

Memorial Day Service 2019

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VETERANS MEMORIAL SERVICE SET FOR 1 P.M., MAY 26

MIRAMAR NATIONAL CEMETERY

MCAS Commander, VA Executive, San Diego Veteran of the Year

Are Featured Speakers

Colonel Charles B. Dockery, USMC
Commanding Officer
Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar

Colonel Charles B. Dockery, Commanding Officer of Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, will be the featured speaker at the Veterans Memorial Service scheduled at 1 p.m., Sunday, May 26, at Miramar National Cemetery.

Joining Dockery on the podium will be Brian Alvin, Chief of Operations, Pacific District, National Cemetery Administration; and the San Diego County Veteran of the Year, Master Sergeant Matthew Foster, USMC Retired.

The Miramar National Cemetery Support Foundation will sponsor the eighth annual Veterans Memorial Service. The 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing Band will perform. Singing [Continue Reading]

Wreaths for Veterans

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Foundation Honors Veterans at Wreaths Across America Event

Foundation Vice President Charlie Inot, who served in Special Forces, lays a wreath at the monument honoring the U.S. Army Special Forces Regiment.

Miramar National Cemetery
Support Foundation Vice President Charlie Inot and Secretary Sallay Kim
participated in the Wreaths Across America event, Dec. 15, to honor veterans
buried at Miramar National Cemetery.

Inot and Kim, both Army
veterans, paid tribute to Army Sgt. Charles Schroeter, who was awarded the
Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Indian Wars in 1869.  Sgt. Schroeter’s remains are buried in
Section 3, grave 1052.

Inot, a Vietnam veteran who
served in Special Forces, also laid a wreath at the monument honoring the Special
Forces Regiment.  Kim, a former Army
Jumpmaster, and her husband, Tae, a former Army Paratrooper, [Continue Reading]

Veterans Day Service 2018

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Veterans Day Service Honors Sacrifices
of Those Who Fought in World War I

Miramar National Cemetery Holds Remains of Two WWI Veterans

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Cardenas, 98, described his experiences as a World War II POW to an audience attending a Veterans Day service at Miramar National Cemetery. (See Cardenas Biography)

(Nov. 11, 2018) A bright orange sun was setting above Miramar National Cemetery as an audience of some 150 veterans, active duty military and family members gathered to honor those who fought and died in World War I. Dozens of others walked among the cemetery’s 16,000 headstones, placing flags or flowers on the graves of loved ones.

Dennis Schoville, chairman of the Support Foundation, described [Continue Reading]