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Park and Veterans Committee

Veterans Memorial

Committee members: Gary Dixon, Sharon Dixon, Shirley Duplessis, Clinton Dyer, Richard Lawrence, Idele Luce, Robin Patterson, and Patrick Turlo.

BENTON RIVERFRONT PARK. The gazebo at the Benton Riverfront Park is available for weddings and other family-oriented gatherings. Call or visit the Town Office to reserve a date. The Town requires a refundable deposit when making a reservation.

There's a small walking path downriver from the gazebo.

VETERANS MEMORIAL. The Park and Veterans Committee continues to seek veterans' names for our memorial. Any veteran who entered the service while living in Benton and served during a period of conflict is eligible to be on the Benton memorial.

The attached Excel spreadsheet has the names of veterans who are on the pictured memorial. After the Memorial was established, new names were submitted to the Park and Veterans Committee and were added on October 17, 2009 as follows:

WORLD WAR II
Lawrence E. Clifford
Dana W. Hunter
Louis Poulin
Percy Poulin

VIET NAM WAR
Richard A. Bellows Sr.
Michael W. Blair
David R. Cairnie
Raymond C. Cairnie
Gary A. Chamberlain
Robert Harding
Barbara Pottle
Fred Pottle
Brian Abbott Richardson
Charles Alton Richardson Jr.
George Spencer
Malcolm Spencer

KOREAN WAR
Norman J. Poulin

LEBANON/GRENADA
David A. Walker

DESERT STORM
Michael J. Colson
Chad E. Cookson
Shawn M. Dixon
Barrett J. Gagnon
Nathan J. Landry
David C. Lane
Randall A. Liberty
Richard Pillsbury
Chriss Walsh

The following name will be added in a 2010 update to the Veterans Memorial:

DESERT STORM
Matthew Kent

For more information, contact Gary Dixon, Rick Lawrence or Pat Turlo or visit the Memorial which is located across the parking lot from the Town Office.

Vote in Honor of a Veteran. Check out: http://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/voter_info/veteran/index.html

POW/MIA Flag Display. Display of the POW/MIA flag by the Town of Benton coincides with the federal display as prescribed in the Federal Register dated May 27, 2008 --

The POW/MIA flag is flown "on the following six days: 1) Armed Forces Day, the third Saturday in May; 2) Memorial Day, the last Monday in May; 3) Flag Day, June 14; 4) Independence Day, July 4; 5) National POW/MIA Recognition Day (...the third Friday of September); and 6) Veterans Day, November 11."

"Display of the POW/MIA flag serves as the symbol of our Nation's concern and commitment to achieving the fullest possible accounting of all Americans who still remain, or in the future may become, unaccounted for as prisoners of war, missing in action or otherwise unaccounted for as a result of hostile action."

"The official POW/MIA flag is the National League of Families POW/MIA flag, as designated by 36 U.S.C. Sec. 902."

"When displayed from a single flag pole, the POW/MIA flag should fly directly below, and be no larger than, the flag of the United States. If on separate poles, the flag of the United States always should be placed to the right of other flags."

Maine National Guard FAMILY ASSISTANCE CENTER. http://www.me.ngb.army.mil/FAMILY/

Bureau of Maine Veterans' Services. http://www.maine.gov/dvem/bvs/

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