Events included the Bartlett Police Department’s posting of the colors, the national anthem sung by David Skelton, an armed forces medley performed by the Appling Middle School Band, a welcome by David Horne, a reading of Jeff Meece’s original poem titled “Veterans Day,” remarks by Bartlett Mayor A. Keith McDonald, the laying of a wreath at the memorial and the playing of “Taps.”
The guest speaker was David K. Dunning, retired colonel from the U.S. Army medical Service Corps and current Medical Center Director and CEO for the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis.
