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JUNE 5, 2026
Utah Beach
9:30am: Rehearsal (Groups begin in their performance place, rehearse than move out to their positioning location and wait for the signal to march back to performance place to begin ceremony)
LIBERATION MEMORIAL CEREMONY - UTAH BEACH
10:50am Voices of Aloha – prelude performance
10:58am Claddagh Mhor Pipe Band – Armed Forces Salute
11:00am MC introductions and welcome
11:02am National Anthem of France – All-American Band, followed by The United
States National Anthem, D-Day Massed Bands, LtCol Beth Steele conducting
11:08am Mayor - welcome remarks
11:10am Student speaker
11:15am WWII Or Veteran / Military Speaker -
11:20am Wreath laying ceremony, Anchorage Honor platoon
JROTC – place wreathes
Mass Bands and Choir, Perform Hymn To the Fallen, by John Williams, conducted by Lt. Colonel Beth Steele (Former director with the United States Army Band). Mass
bands; All-American Band & Choir, Tarleton State Univ Band, Hollidaysburg Community
Band, Eastern Hillsborough Community Band, Birmingham Community Band, and Town
North All Texas Concert Band, choirs: A Chorus for a Cause and the Voices of Aloha
11:26am Amazing Grace – Claddagh Mhor Pipes Band
11:30am Taps, arranged by Roger Ballenger– All-American Band, Lt Col Beth Steele
11:38am A Chorus for a Cause – Christine Allison - Stand With the Brave
11:47am Joel Biggs - History Maker medal presentation and Concluding Remarks
11:55am Visit Utah Beach
