{"id":8937,"date":"2018-05-31T15:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2018-05-31T15:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:56:47","slug":"2018-fallen-alumni-ceremony-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/2018-fallen-alumni-ceremony-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Fallen Alumni Ceremony, Memorial Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Sgt. Anna Rodrigues of the U.S.M.C. offered to find us a keynote speaker for this year’s Fallen Alumni ceremony, we honestly felt as if the Marines had landed!<\/p>\n

That is how Major Jared Redding, U.S.M.C. came to give our keynote this year. He spoke of the men and women he knew personally who had given their all and reminded us that every day is a Memorial Day for the loved ones of those who gave their all for our country.<\/p>\n

After the keynote, alumni, community members, Sgt. Rodrigues, Staff Sgt. Bradley Phillips and friends and family members read the names of our fallen and spoke a little bit about them.<\/p>\n

It is in this way that we hope to keep the memories of these 20 individuals alive, to remember their sacrifices and to honor them as best we can.<\/p>\n

\"Sue

Sue Sieber Cooper welcomes everyone.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"two

Everyone got comfy!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Attendees

After a week of off-and-on drizzle, we were so glad to have sunshine for the service.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Front

Alumni and staff were in attendance, including teacher John Cannon, in the front!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"View

Major Jared Reddinger gives his keynote<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Audience<\/p>\n

\"Major<\/p>\n

\"John

John Cannon<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Elizabeth

Elizabeth Moody Gordon (’84)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Monica

Monica Coughlin (’66) spoke on behalf of Victor Lopez (’66) and Richard B. Cozens (’40)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Tony

Tony Kranz (’77)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dan

Dan Dalager (’68)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Danna

Danna Gunther (’66)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Cindy

Cindy Korwin Thorpe (65)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Staff

Staff Sergeant Bradley Phillips, U.S.M.C.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ceci

Ceci Muntz<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Leslie

Leslie Saldana, SDAF Executive Director and Class of 1984<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Sgt.

Sergeant Anna Rodrigues, U.S.M.C.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Jay

Jay Helmantoler (’60) spoke about Jimmy Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Man<\/p>\n

\"Terry

Terry Carlson (’64) spoke of classmates Ray Curley and Joe Tworek<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lisa

Lisa Wilson Tucker (’86)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Kip

Kip Peppin spoke of her brother, Pfc. David Dawson Peppin, Jr., U.S.M.C.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"woman

A cousin of Armando Ramos (’69) remembers him.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Three

Sgt. Anna Rodrigues, Major Jared Redding, Staff Sgt. Bradley Phillips, Ray Woolley (’67).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"All

Sgt. Anna Rodrigues, Terry Carlson, Major Jared Redding, and Staff Sgt. Bradley Phillips.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"All

Sgt. Anna Rodrigues, Terry Carlson (’64), Major Jared Redding, Staff Sgt. Bradley Phillips, Ray Woolley (’67).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"All

Sgt. Anna Rodrigues, Sue Cooper, Major Jared Redding, and Staff Sgt. Bradley Phillips.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"several

The family of Cpl. Armando Diaz Ramos (\u201969), U.S. Army, was there as well, including his father (center) and his high school sweetheart, Helen “Chunkie” Hernandez (in red).<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Three

Don Hubbard (’65), Cindy Korwin Thorpe (’65), Kip Peppin<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Sgt. Anna Rodrigues of the U.S.M.C. offered to find us a keynote speaker for this year’s Fallen Alumni ceremony, we honestly felt as if the Marines had landed! That is how Major Jared Redding, U.S.M.C. came to give our keynote this year. He spoke of the men and women […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdafoundation.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}