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Memorial Day Ceremony
May 26, 2025
Cancelled due to construction

Flags will be placed on every grave.
Flags placement: May 24, 9:00 am
Flag retrieval: May 31, 9:00 am

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Honoring All Veterans

May 31, 2021
(Monday)

West Tennessee

Veterans Cemetery

4000 Forest Hill Irene Rd, Memphis, TN 38125

Office hours – M-F  8:00am- 4:30pm

Our gates are open 24/7

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:  Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.  At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.  -Laurance Binyon, Poems for the Fallen

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Flag Placement Day
  • Saturday, May 24th
  • Flag Placement - 9:00 am

Master of Ceremonies

 

11:00 AM

National Anthem

Flyover

Posting of Colors

Pledge of Allegiance

Invocation

Welcome/Remarks

Guest Speaker  

Memorial Day Music

God Bless America

21 Gun Salute

Taps


  •  

Retiring the Colors

GOLF CART TRANSPORTATION

PROVIDED AS NEEDED

Flag Retrieval Day

  • Saturday, May 31st

  • Begins at 9 a.m.

  • Weather Permitting

      (Flags must be dry for storage)

 

Flag Placement Day
  • Saturday, November 9th
  • Begins at 9 a.m.

Nov. 11, 2024

(Monday)

Begins at 2:00 PM

Memorial Day
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Veterans Day

May 26, 2025

Ceremony cancelled due to

construction

West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery will be the only cemetery with flags displayed on every grave

Master of Ceremonies

  • Joseph D Kyles, Retired Shelby County Coordinator for Veterans Services

 

2:00 PM

National Anthem

  • Lonnie Coleman

Flyover

  • Bird Dogs and Stearman

Posting of Colors

  • ​Craigmont High School JROTC

Pledge of Allegiance

  • All

Invocation

  • Reverend Robert Clark, Jr., Pastor    Piperton United Methodist Church

Welcome/Remarks

  • Jennifer Heiselman, Director West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery

Guest Speaker  

  • Major General Tommy H. Baker,            USA, Retired    

​        Commissioner, Tennessee                               Department of Veteran Services

 

Veterans' Day Music                                   

  • Bartlett Community Band under the direction of Dr. Rhendle Millen       

  • Bagpipes: Dr. Ben Kemker

Armed Forces Medley

God Bless America

  • All

 

21 Gun Salute

  • Germantown Police Honor Guard

Taps

  • Sgt. Charly L Wells, Sr., USMC Bugle

Retiring the Colors

  • Craigmont High School JROTC​

GOLF CART TRANSPORTATION

PROVIDED AS NEEDED

Flag Retrieval Day

  • Saturday, November 16th

  • Begins at 9 a.m.

  • Weather Permitting

      (Flags must be dry for storage)

Dec. 14, 2024
(Saturday)
Begins at 11:00 a.m.
Opening Ceremony
Placement of Wreaths

Veterans

Grave Locator

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West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery

All events are hosted by the West Tennessee Cemetery Support Group.  Co-Hosted by the Boy and Girl Scouts of America.

 

West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery is a State of Tennessee run cemetery that opened in 1992.  The director is Jennifer Heiselman and there are presently over 29,000  graves.  Veterans and their spouses are allowed to be buried at the cemetery.  Golf carts will assist those unable to walk from the parking area to the program center.

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