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Happy 239th Birthday U.S. Marine Corps Vol. 71, No. 44
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Celebrating 71 Years of Community Partnership
November 6, 2014
Base roadwork Nov. 8-9, 11 Tate Road Roadwork takes place on Tate Road from the intersection of Cuddihy Road to Hangar 305; access to Hangar 305 will not be blocked. Tate Road will be coned off on the center line and cars will need to go around the striping truck. Work should inflict little to no delays on vehicular traffic.
Cedar Point Road Roadwork takes place on Cedar Point Road from Gate 2 to Taxiway Foxtrot. Cedar Point Road will have rolling lane closures, as well as cones down the center line. Work includes crack sealing from the intersection of the Buse Road to Taxiway Alpha, as well as re-striping from Gate 2 to Taxiway Foxtrot. This work will cause rolling lane closures during crack sealing roadwork. There will be cone and sign placement during re-striping. Cars will have to go around the re-striping and crack sealing trucks as necessary. No road closures are necessary, and little effect on traffic is anticipated.
Buse Road Roadwork takes place on Buse Road from Gate 1 to Cedar Point Road if all other planned roadwork is complete in the allotted time frame. Buse Road will have rolling road closures, so traffic will have to go around the crack sealing trucks as necessary. Gate 1 will remain open throughout the work. All work is pending good weather.
U.S. Navy photo by Shawn Graham
Capt. Heidi Fleming, center, NAS Patuxent River commanding officer, provides opening remarks to Chesapeake Bay Area Combined Federal Campaign key workers, Oct. 30, at the Frank Knox building. Combined Federal Campaign is the only authorized solicitation of federal employees in their workplace on behalf of approved charitable organizations.
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$10 a week buys 16, 25-pound boxes of food – enough to feed 16 families of veterans for a week
$10 a week will spay 10 female dogs and cats $5 a week can provide crisis services for three victims of domestic violence
$4 a week can provide early intervention for veterans in need of mental healthcare $1.50 a week can provide three months of counseling sessions for a family dealing with Alzheimer’s and dementia
Remembering Pax River’s long-forgotten veterans By Donna Cipolloni NAS Patuxent River Public Affairs
Unlike Memorial Day, which honors American service members who died in service to their country, Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans, both living and dead, who served their country honorably during war or peacetime. In St. Mary’s County, veterans are everywhere — in our community and our workplace; but some veterans close by, while passed by thousands of people each day, remain unnoticed and long forgotten. Although the present St. Nicholas Chapel was built in 1916,
the site’s original church was erected in 1796 and, for generations, the parish served many Catholic families who lived on the land now occupied by NAS Patuxent River. When the Navy acquired that land to build the installation in 1942, the headstones in the cemetery surrounding the chapel were laid over and covered with sod. They remained that way until 2006 when Scott Lawrence, local resident and contractor with the Special Requirements Communications Division at Webster Outlying Field, acquired permission and began restoring the cemetery — a task that took seven years.
Through his efforts, Lawrence also restored a tangible link to those who once called this area home, including military veterans who served as far back as the Revolutionary War.
The Veterans of Yesteryear “The procedure for restoring the graveyard was done in phases, with the first being the recovery and re-erection of all the known veterans,” Lawrence explained. “Initially, 12 veterans were identified, but subsequent research found more. There are at least 23 veterans from some of the earliest wars in American history.”
See Veterans, Page 8
U.S. Navy photo by Donna Cipolloni
On display at the St. Mary’s County Historical Society in Leonardtown is a silver-handled sword once presented to Michael Brown Carroll, a naval veteran who participated in some of the nation’s earliest wars, including the Barbary Coast Wars and the War of 1812. Brown is buried in the cemetery that surrounds St. Nicholas Chapel at NAS Patuxent River.