Service Planned To Honor Lakeview Cemetery's Veterans Sunday

Patchogue NY

12 November, 2021

9:12 PM

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PATCHOGUE, NY — A small service will be held to honor the veterans who are buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Patchogue on Sunday. The ceremony will be led by Rev. Ralph Wright at the flag pole near Waverly Avenue starting at noon. The yearly service is normally much larger but due to the pandemic, it has been scaled back this year. "It's just to keep the tradition going," Wright said. As part of the service, he expects to say some words about the cemetery's veterans and to also read the annual presidential proclamation from President Joe Biden marking Veterans Day. "It will be a service to honor veterans and it goes back to the Armistice Day of World War I," he said, adding that there are veterans buried at the cemetery fought in wars that go back even further in the United States history. The veterans buried at the cemetery include members of the armed forces from the American Revolution, Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam conflict are all buried