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Page 10 December 2018 The Catoctin Banner Newspaper www.TheCatoctinBanner.com Published by www.EPlusPromotes.com

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Honoring Our Veterans on Veterans Day

Photo by Marty Williams
Many local events took place honoring our Veterans on Veterans
Day, thanking them for their service to our country, including a Veterans
Day Open House at the Thurmont Senior Center. The event featured the
AMVETS Color Guard, the National Anthem played by the Gateway Brass
Ensemble, lunch, a heartfelt WWII Honor Flight video presentation, and
so much more. Special guest Priscilla Rall of the Frederick County Veterans
History Project talked about her book about local WWI Veterans.
The American Legion Post 121 Honor Guard made their annual rounds
to area cemeteries to play tribute to the Veterans buried in them. The
Trinity United Church of Christ held their annual Veterans Day special
program, and the Hoke Family celebrated the 100 year anniversary of the
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signing of the WWI Armistice and the family’s annual tradition of ringing
the church bells in Emmitsburg.
Our apologies if we left out any services or events from our list or if we
have errors in regard to the information we did receive.

Pictured from left are John “Chum” Sutton, Larry Smith, Randy Hoff, Mike Orndorff, Bob Dinterman,
Photo by Deb Abraham Spalding Paul “Buzz” Sutton, Ron Rosensteel, and Ron Cool.

Courtesy Photo

Tom Hoke (age ninety-five) of Emmitsburg and his family rang the church bell at the Evangelical
Reformed Church of the Incarnation in Emmitsburg on Friday, November 23, 2018, beginning at
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five minutes before 11:00 a.m. in honor of the 100 anniversary of the signing of the Armistice
that ended World War I at 11:00 a.m. on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. The Hoke family
has carried this tradition at this church for all one hundred years (except while Tom was in service A Veterans event was held at the Thurmont Senior Center on November 3, 2018, to honor all
in WWII, then Fred Wolf did it). For this 100 anniversary, Tom’s daughter, Becky, pulled the bell Veterans. Franklin Valentine and Lee Toms enjoyed the information and comraderie available at the
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rope, while his nephew, David Yoder, kept time. Relatives traveled from as far as Alaska to attend. event.

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