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JUNE 5, 2026
Utah Beach
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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)
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LIBERATION MEMORIAL CEREMONY - UTAH BEACH
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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
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