Protestant Home observes Memorial Day

Carol Feeley reads the poem In Flanders Fields.

Audrey Alston sings the Star-Spangled Banner.

Bill Conaway assists Anne Marie Bresnan in placing a wreath.

Boy Scouts Troop 160’s Martin Stacey and Alexander Matthews lower an American flag to half-staff at the Protestant Home.

Walt MacBride, scoutmaster of Boy Scouts Troop 160, addresses crowd at the Protestant Home.

Boy Scouts Troop 160 with Pastor Earl Scott, chaplain at the Protestant Home

Boys Scouts Troop 160 at the Protestant Home

The Philadelphia Protestant Home last week observed Memorial Day, with director of community relations Bill Conaway serving as emcee.

Conaway asked all veterans to stand for a round of applause and explained the meaning of the table set for one for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action.

Boy Scouts of America Troop 160 Scoutmaster Walt MacBride read Memorial Day messages by Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush.

Resident and Army veteran Audrey Alston sang the national anthem, God Bless America and Blades of Grass and Pure White Stones. Pastor Earl Scott, the chaplain, offered the invocation and benediction. There was a wreath laying, the playing of Taps and the reading of In Flanders Fields.

Joe Delmar and Sean Tobin, aides to state Rep. Anthony Bellmon and U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle, were in attendance. ••