RED BANK: BOROUGH MARKS MEMORIAL DAY

May 30, 2023

The Red Bank Primary School Choir sang “God Bless the USA.” Below, Scouts troops 67 and 965 led the pledge of allegiance. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Americans should should “remember those people who gave all so you could have the life you have,” a keynote speaker told about 125 area residents assembled in Red Bank for a Memorial Day ceremony Monday.

“They made a sacrifice so that we could all be here and have the ability to live the lives that we do,” Army Colonel Bill Putnam told the gathering, at the Veterans Monument on Monmouth Street at Drummond Place.

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May 30, 2023 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: KIDS HONOR VETERANS

Nov 11, 2021

After a one-year pandemic interruption, groups of school children returned to the annual Veterans Day commemoration in Red Bank Thursday.

With poems, songs and handmade ‘thank you’ cards for veterans, students from St. James School, the Red Bank Charter School and Red Bank Middle School participated in the event, held at the Veterans Monument on Monmouth Street – alongside the onetime borough hall.

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November 11, 2021 - 4:30 pm |

RED BANK: LOCALS HONOR VETERANS

Nov 12, 2020

Red Bank Middle School student Aisha Jones, above, and Second Deputy Fire Chief Nick Ferraro were among the participants in the borough’s annual Veterans Day commemoration Wednesday.

Like many other events since March, it was a masked-up gathering because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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November 12, 2020 - 6:45 am |

ON THE GREEN: VETERANS DAY OBSERVATIONS

Nov 10, 2020

Wednesday is Veteran’s Day, and two towns on the Greater Red Bank Green plan to hold commemoration services, though one will be virtual, and the other curtailed, to limit the spread of COVID-19. See below for details.

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November 10, 2020 - 12:00 pm |

RED BANK: MARKING VETERANS DAY

Nov 11, 2019

Scouts saluted the American flag and Red Bank Charter School students sang ‘America the Beautiful’ at a lightly attended gathering to observe Veterans Day in Red Bank Monday.

Guy Opie, Exalted Ruler of Elks Lodge 233, defined a veteran as “someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check to the United States of America, for an amount up to and including their life.” And Rabbi Marc Kline, of the Monmouth Reformed Temple, told the audience that the best way to honor those who have served is to work to prevent future wars. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

November 11, 2019 - 12:50 pm |

ON THE GREEN: VETERANS DAY OBSERVATIONS

Nov 10, 2019

Monday is Veteran’s Day, and towns on the Greater Red Bank Green plan to hold commemoration services. See below for details.

Local, state and federal government offices will be closed. The post office is also closed, as are many banks.

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November 10, 2019 - 11:45 am |

RED BANK: CENTENARY OF ARMISTICE MARKED

Nov 12, 2018

At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, Red Bank area residents gathered Sunday to observe Veterans Day and the centenary of the Armistice that ended World War I in 1918.

Mayor Pasquale Menna and a National Guard officer laid a small memorial at the Veterans Monument at Monmouth Street and Drummond Place to honor the 10 borough “boys” who lost their lives in WWI.

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November 12, 2018 - 8:22 am |

ON THE GREEN: OBSERVING VETERANS DAY

Nov 9, 2017

Saturday is Veteran’s Day, and a number of towns on the Greater Red Bank Green plan to hold their customary commemoration services then. Click “read more” for details.

Meantime, most local and state government offices will be closed both Friday and Saturday. Post Offices will be open Friday and closed Saturday. (Click photos to enlarge)

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November 9, 2017 - 5:16 pm |

VETERANS DAY CEREMONIES 2016

Nov 10, 2016

Servicemen and women will be among the local resident who gather at the monument to war veterans at Monmouth Street and Drummond Place in Red Bank for a Veterans Day commemoration Friday. Click “read more” for town-by-town events on the Green. (Click photos to enlarge)

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November 10, 2016 - 2:52 pm |

RED BANK: “UNSTINTING SERVICE” HONORED

Nov 11, 2015

Local veterans saluted as the Red Bank Charter School choir sang ‘The Star-Spangled’ at a Veterans Day commemoration in downtown Red Bank Wednesday. Mayor Red Bank Menna told a small crowd gathered at the Veterans Monument at Monmouth Street and Drummond Place that the annual event honored “the unstinting service and selfless loyalty” given by generations of men and women who have served in the military.

At right, the duo known as Williams Honor sang an original song, and below, charter school eighth-grader Jonathan Rivera played bagpipes to open and close the ceremony. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

November 11, 2015 - 2:52 pm |

VETERANS DAY CEREMONIES 2015

Nov 10, 2015

The monument to war veterans at Monmouth Street and Drummond Place in Red Bank, above, and Memorial Park in Fair Haven, at right, are once again host sites for Veterans Day commemorations Wednesday.

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November 10, 2015 - 11:57 am |

RED BANK: REMEMBERING THOSE WHO SERVED

Nov 11, 2014

Red Bank Charter School fourth-graders sang, and local officials paid tribute to those who’ve served in America’s wars with a ceremony at the Veterans Monument on Monmouth Street on Tuesday, Veterans Day.

Michael Rodriguez, former Exalted Ruler of the Red Bank Elks, told the audience that the event was an acknowledgement of “those who live among us and those who live only in memory,” including soldiers and sailors unaccounted for. (Click photos to enlarge)

November 11, 2014 - 12:11 pm |

VETERANS DAY CEREMONIES 2014

Nov 10, 2014

The monument to war veterans at Monmouth Street and Drummond Place in Red Bank is once again host to a Veterans Day commemoration. Click “read more” for town-by-town events on the Green. (Click photos to enlarge)

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November 10, 2014 - 12:37 pm |

‘MINDFUL OF WHAT THESE BOYS GAVE’

Nov 12, 2012

World War II veteran Ray Taylor listens as Fair Haven Mayor Ben Lucarelli speaks at the borough’s annual Veterans Day celebration at Victory Park Sunday. Taylor, 90, also took a turn in front of the park’s doughboy statue, telling several dozen onlookers, “I’m glad to see so many of you here, mindful of what these boys gave.” (Click to enlarge)

November 12, 2012 - 1:20 pm |

BIG RETURN HOME FOR LITTLE SILVER MARINE

Oct 31, 2011

After six months of intense fighting in Afghanistan, Lance Corporal Brian Dilger of the U.S. Marines was welcomed home on leave in Little Silver Sunday.

The 22-year-old Red Bank Catholic grad was treated to an impromptu fire-and-first aider’s parade through town led by the Warriors Watch Riders, who drove up from Camden County for the occasion.

“I’m pretty embarrassed, but it’s definitely awesome to be back,” Dilger told redbankgreen, seen above right with his sister, Grace. (Click to enlarge)

October 31, 2011 - 7:53 am |

IN ANTICIPATION OF A MARINE’S RETURN

Oct 11, 2011

The neighborhood around the Rumson Place, Little Silver home of Lance Corporal Brian Dilger of the U.S. Marines is suddenly abloom in yellow ribbons. Dilger’s mom, Janine Talbot, tells redbankgreen that the 22-year-old Red Bank Catholic graduate who’s with the 2nd Marine Division’s Combat Engineering Battalion out of Camp Lejuene, North Carolina is expected home shortly before Thanksgiving for some R&R after a six-month’s deployment in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, where he’s been involved in heavy combat. (Click to enlarge)

October 11, 2011 - 3:43 pm |