A Memorial Day service is planned at 11 a.m. Monday, May 30, at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-West, 5817 Fort Campbell Blvd.
The guest speaker will be Col. Peter Gilbert, commander of the 101st Airborne Division Sustainment Brigade at Fort Campbell. A color guard with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1913 will present colors, place a wreath and change the flag. Hopkinsville musician Johnny Brown will play taps.
Most city, county, state and federal offices, including U.S. post offices, will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday.
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
