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The volunteers at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent received a formal thank you from the Army. Read on:

U. S. Army Says Thank You to the Tahoma National Cemetery Volunteers

Patriotism comes in many forms. Soldiers make great sacrifices for their country, but so do those they leave behind when they deploy to serve. On April 30th the Army said “thank you” to some of the people who make the service of Army Soldiers possible. Almost 200 Tahoma National Cemetery Volunteers were honored with a Freedom Team Salute—a program launched by the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff—in a ceremony at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, WA.

Mr. James Trimbo, the Veterans Administration Director at the Tahoma National Cemetery, made the presentations and announced that these citizens volunteered 18,216 hours during the last fiscal year at the cemetery providing military honors, chaplain services and taps. During this period there were 2,683 internments and 1,377 had military honors.

Tahoma National Cemetery has a Veterans Service Organization Honor Guard Association. These veterans provided honors to 90 percent of the veterans interred here and volunteered 11,302 hours. The Association is made up of The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Elks Club, the Inter Tribal Warriors Society, and other organizations. All of these volunteers have served in the Armed Forces themselves and include veterans who have served in WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, the Gulf War and the present wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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