Flag Day Ceremony at Darien Town Hall

Memorial Day Speaker: Brian O’Malley, Iraq/Afghan War Vet, West Point Grad

UPDATE: Memorial Day Ceremony Will Be in Darien Library, After Parade

Darien Veterans Day Observances on Wednesday, Nov 11

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The Monuments and Ceremonies Commission will hold our annual Flag Day Observance at the Veterans Memorial Circle at Town Hall at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14. “All are invited to bring their old, weathered flags. Members of the VFW will accept the old and used flags for proper disposal at a later date, and have a brief flag ceremony, lowering an old flag and raising a new one. The Monuments & Ceremonies Commission urges all citizens to take note of the program placed in motion this year by State Representative Terrie Wood, and replace their tattered and worn flags. Representative Wood has established drop points around Town, at the Public Library, Town Hall, and the Darien VFW (open after 4pm daily).”

Brian O’Malley, a West Point graduate who was awarded a Bronze Star for his service with the U.S. Army in Iraq, then served as a reservist in Afghanistan, has been selected as the 2016 Darien Memorial Day speaker. O’Malley, the junior vice commander of Darien’s VFW Post 6933 and an officer in the Connecticut VFW, will speak during services held at Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery immediately following the Memorial Day Parade, at about 11:30 a.m. on Monday, May 30, 2016. State and local officials, Darien selectmen and Darien Police and fire department chiefs are all invited to this patriotic commemoration. The Darien Monuments and Ceremonies Commission encourages the public to attend. Brian graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1999 with a BS degree in German/French and Nuclear Engineering.

Update 9:04 a.m.:
According to the Weather Channel website, as of 9 a.m., Monday, rain is 55 percent likely at 10 a.m. and 60 percent likely at 11 a.m., with only showers predicted, and nothing after noon. On Sunday night, thunderstorms were predicted, but not now. Update, 8:48 a.m., Monday:
The Memorial Day ceremony will take place in Darien Library’s Community Room, First Selectman Jayme Stevenson announced at 8:38 a.m.:

The Memorial Day Ceremony (usually held in the Spring Grove Veterans Cemetery immediately following the

Parade today) will be held in the Darien Library Community Room. Our speaker, Brian O’Malley will be there and the service will be conducted as usual, but indoors and immediately after the Parade ends.

Sunday night:
Rain or Shine, the Memorial Day Parade kicks off at 10 a.m., First Selectman Jayme Stevenson announced Sunday. But there’s an alternative, indoor location for the ceremony, which town officials will decide whether to use by 10 a.m. Monday:

In the event of rain, the Parade Committee and Monuments and Ceremonies Commission will decide by 10 a.m. tomorrow (Memorial Day) if the ceremony typically held in the Spring Grove Cemetery will be held in the Community Room at the Darien Library.

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At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month (Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 11 a.m.), the Town of Darien will observe Veterans’ Day in front of Town Hall in the Veterans’ Memorial Circle. The Town Monuments and Ceremonies Commission and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Darien Post 6933 will host. A proclamation will be read. Many Town and State officials have been invited.