Aurora officials will gather at the Colorado Freedom Memorial near Buckley Air Force Base on May 28 to honor those state residents killed in military action since 1876.
The event, Colorado Remembers, will begin at 11 a.m. with a formal wreath-laying ceremony and continue with a 2 p.m. concert by a-cappella chorus Sound of the Rockies.
Dedicated in 2013, the memorial is a set of glass panels with the etched names of nearly 6,000 Coloradans killed in action since it became a state. The remains of nearly half were never returned to Colorado soil.
The memorial is in Springhill Community Park on Telluride Street.
“The Colorado Freedom Memorial has grown to be more than a listing of names on glass panels to a place of respect where young people learn about service and sacrifice,” Rick Crandell, president of the Colorado Freedom Memorial Foundation, said in a press release. “It is, of course, a place of honor where loved-ones gather to remember personal heroes. And it is a place of celebration for lives heroically lived.”
The free event is expected to include a military fly-over and the first public tolling of the Colorado Honor Bell.
