OFH Memorial ceremony Saturday

By LENNY C. LEPOLA

News Assis­tant Man­ag­ing Editor

On Sat­ur­day the Ohio Fallen Heroes Memo­r­ial (OFHM) will hold its annual 9/11 remem­brance cer­e­mony hon­or­ing all Ohio ser­vice mem­bers killed in the War on Ter­ror and their Gold Star fam­i­lies left behind.

More than 260 Ohioans have given their lives in the line of duty since 9/11. The Memo­r­ial, located next to Com­mu­nity Library in Sun­bury and across the street from Sun­bury Memo­r­ial Park, was estab­lished in 2005 through the efforts of vet­er­ans, Gold Star fam­i­lies, and other patri­otic Ohioans, who wanted to cre­ate a last­ing trib­ute to those killed in the War on Terror.

The Ohio House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives rec­og­nized the Memo­r­ial as a statewide memo­r­ial to Ohio’s fallen in 2005.

Speak­ers at this year’s cer­e­mony will be Con­gress­man Pat Tiberi, OFHM Founder Jerry Jodrey, Gold Star fam­ily mem­ber Teresa Eng­lish and OFHM Pres­i­dent Shawn Delgado.

The cer­e­mony begins at 4:30 p.m. and will last until 6 p.m., fol­lowed by a night-long vigil at the Memo­r­ial by mem­bers of Sunbury’s VFW Post 8736.

For more infor­ma­tion, go to < ohiofallenheroes.org >.

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