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Veterans remembered at Fort Logan ceremony
  
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By Tom Munds
The 32nd annual Veterans Day Remembrance Ceremony was held Nov. 11 at Fort Logan National Cemetery.
Mother Nature cooperated, providing warm, sunny weather for the ceremony that included a number of speakers, including Gov. Bill Ritter, U.S. Sen Mike Bennett and U.S. Rep Mike Coffman, the traditional 21-gun salute and a number of musicians playing an echo version of Taps.
Salvator J. Marasciullo, who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, said he came to the ceremony to see fellow veterans and to visit the graves of his brothers.
“I served in the Marines in World War II, got out, went to school and got an Air Force commission,” Marasciullo said. “I went on active duty in early 1950 and wound up going to Korea. I was still in during the early years of Vietnam and got over there too.”
He said he enjoys meeting other veterans, particularly guys like him who served in World War II because, as he noted, “We are becoming an endangered species.”
The crowd included men and women in uniform, members of veterans groups, families and even children, like more than a dozen kindergartners from Zion Lutheran.
Away from the ceremony, the rows of headstones marched across the field. Here and there, families placed flowers on graves.
Some people came to visit the graves of buddies.
“I served in Korea with my best friend,” Thad Yacklich said as he stood quietly in front of his friend’s headstone. “He was wounded and that wound cut his life short. He’s been gone a long time but still I miss him so I come here once or twice a year to pay my respects.”
Mother Nature cooperated, providing warm, sunny weather for the ceremony that included a number of speakers, including Gov. Bill Ritter, U.S. Sen Mike Bennett and U.S. Rep Mike Coffman, the traditional 21-gun salute and a number of musicians playing an echo version of Taps.
Salvator J. Marasciullo, who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, said he came to the ceremony to see fellow veterans and to visit the graves of his brothers.
“I served in the Marines in World War II, got out, went to school and got an Air Force commission,” Marasciullo said. “I went on active duty in early 1950 and wound up going to Korea. I was still in during the early years of Vietnam and got over there too.”
He said he enjoys meeting other veterans, particularly guys like him who served in World War II because, as he noted, “We are becoming an endangered species.”
The crowd included men and women in uniform, members of veterans groups, families and even children, like more than a dozen kindergartners from Zion Lutheran.
Away from the ceremony, the rows of headstones marched across the field. Here and there, families placed flowers on graves.
Some people came to visit the graves of buddies.
“I served in Korea with my best friend,” Thad Yacklich said as he stood quietly in front of his friend’s headstone. “He was wounded and that wound cut his life short. He’s been gone a long time but still I miss him so I come here once or twice a year to pay my respects.”
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