Honouring those who gave their lives in service

As of Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Among those at yesterday’s ceremony were, from left, FNM leader Dr Hubert Minnis, Minister of State for National Security Keith Bell, Deputy Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling, US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Lisa Johnson, Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell, and Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson.

TO honour Memorial Day, the US Embassy yesterday held a wreath laying ceremony at Clifton Pier in memory of fallen comrades and military veterans.

The tribute was held at the site of the memorial to Patrol Squad 23, to commemorate the ten US crew members who lost their lives during a training mission off the coast of Nassau on May 7, 1954.

The military services of Bahamian Private First Class Norman Darling who died in the Iraq War in 2004 and Sgt Errol McKinney, US Army, a Bahamian killed in a motorcycle accident in 2013 shortly after to returning to Ft Bliss, Texas, following a deployment to Afghanistan, were also honored.

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