Georgia national cemetery memorial day 2020. The annual memorial day observance will also be held at the national cemetery but it too will be different because of covid 19. Marietta national cemetery covid 19 update due to the covid 19 outbreak this years ceremony has been cancelled. Georgia national cemetery opened for burials in 2006 and was formally dedicated on june 4 of that year.
On memorialday helicopters of the georgia army national guard will fly over north and south ga. The cemetery occupies 330 developed acres of a 775 acre site donated by a private citizen to the national cemetery. Notable persons lonnie c.
Every year over memorial day weekend over 142000 visitors come to. As of mid 2018 over 18000 individuals have been laid to rest there. 2020 memorial day ceremony.
Historian brad quinlin who normally is giving group tours of the marietta national cemetery during memorial day weekend is out placing a few flags and visiting the grounds saturday may 23 2020. Opened for burials in 2006 georgia national cemetery has 39000 sites for traditional casket graves as well as disposition of cremation remains in burial plots a scattering garden and columbarium. Offering views of the north georgia mountains and lake allatoona the cemetery was opened on april 24 2006.
Memorial day at the marietta national cemetery may 27 2019 marietta national cemetery is another place to pay tribute. National memorial day association of georgia. Covid 19 may have put the nation on pause.
Home our organization participate contact directions more info about us. It hosts the official tribute ceremony dedicated to the us. 1936 2019 was born in georgia and spent his childhood with his grandfather who was a sharecropper circuit preacher and member of the national association for the advancement of colored people.
In honor of our fallen and to remind us all of the debt we owe for the high. Current and retired military members lead the solemn program.