Wreath Ceremony Set For Sunday at Veterans Plaza

The Town of Huntington’s 2012 Memorial Day Wreath Ceremony will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the planting of 43 Kwanzan cherry trees on the Huntington Village Green and honor veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Members of the Huntington Town Board, Rep. Steve Israel, various veterans’ organizations are expected to attend. The ceremony begins Sunday at 9:30 a.m. at Veterans Plaza, located at 100 Main Street in Huntington.

Scheduled to speak is Maureen Myles, who with Joy Wellman, founded Women in Support of Our Men in Vietnam, the group that planted the grove on the Village Green in 1972 to remember 43 Huntingtonians who died in Vietnam. To that point, it what was the nation’s first living Vietnam memorial, according to a twon press release.

Founded in 1966, Women in Support of Our Men in Vietnam continued until the release in 1973 of Huntington’s prisoner of war, Capt. David Baker, according to a town press release. All told, more than 400 women participated in the group’s projects.