The Montana Veterans Memorial Association is hosting the 20th annual Memorial Day ceremony at 2 p.m. May 26. “Since its beginning, more than 8,000 tiles have been placed on the walls of this memorial,” MVMA President Starnell Darko said in a release. “Now, twenty years later, we continue to honor our veterans by installing an additional 106 granite tiles.” Uniformed members
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The Montana Veterans Memorial Association is hosting the 19th annual Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 in the lobby of Centene stadium. Members of the 341st Missile Wing base honor guard will present the colors and the invocation will be delivered by U.S. Air Force Chaplain (Capt.) Chad Hesler. The Sound of the Falls Women’s Harmony Chorus will
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The Downtown Chicks, a committee of the Downtown Great Falls Association, is hosting Military Appreciation Days in recognition of Veterans Day. Active duty, retired military, veterans, guard members and their family members, are encouraged to look for the flier below posted in windows throughout stores and restaurants downtown Nov. 7-11. Several of the downtown businesses will be offering sales, specials,
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Duane Gill has been appointed as the executive director for the Montana Veterans Affairs Health Care System. He has been serving as the interim director since July 2023. Before that, Gill was the executive director of the VA Central Western Massachusetts Healthcare System since June 2020. He had previously served as the healthcare system’s associate director from 2014 to 2017,
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John Ranum will be inurned in the Columbarium in Arlington National Cemetery later this summer. Originally from Minnesota, Ranum lived in Great Falls before his death in March 2023. He’d been drafted to serve in Vietnam, he told the Great Falls Rotary in 2015, but was selected to serve as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at
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The Montana Veterans Memorial is hosting the 19th annual Memorial Day ceremony at 2 p.m. May 27. The memorial is located at 1025 25th St. N. Tony and Janet Seahorn, who wrote the book, “Tears of a Warrior, a Family’s Story of Combat and Living with PTSD,” will be the keynote speakers. Tony Seahorn is a U.S. Army combat veteran
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The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services has extended the deadline for a survey to collect information that will help inform future long-term care needs of veterans in the state. The survey is available online and will be available through July 15. Nearly 3,000 veterans have taken the survey already and the department extended the deadline to get more
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The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is encouraging Montana’s veterans to participate in a 10-minute online survey designed to collect information that will help inform future long-term care needs of veterans in the state. Approval for conducting the Veterans’ Long-Term Care Needs Survey was established through House Bill 264, signed by Gov. Greg Gianforte in April of 2023. “The goal of
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The Montana Veterans Memorial Association is holding their annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Montana Veterans Memorial at 11 a.m. Nov. 11. In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved indoors to Centene Stadium. The keynote speaker is retired Chief Master Sgt. Roger Hagan. Hagan served 38 years as a member of the Air National Guard and served
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The Montana Veterans Memorial Association is hosting a Memorial Day ceremony at 2 p.m. May 29. The ceremony will begin with the U.S. Navy tradition of ringing eight bells to honor the end of the watch of fallen comrades. U.S. Navy veteran and former television personality Art Taft will serve as master of ceremonies. This year’s keynote speaker will be
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