Here was the schedule of the days celebratory activities:
- While everyone ate pizza we read a book about a lady who worked hard to do all she could during WWI called "The Poppy Lady"
- After the reading, we made paper poppies from card stock and pipe cleaners, while listening to the "1812 Overture"
- Next we moved to WW2 and read about "Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot", this is a true story of a young lady living in post-war Berlin.
- After the reading we made parachutes out of napkins, thread, and green army men; then dropped them off the top of a ladder to to a chalk target below.
- Our last book covered the Vietnam War and was called "The Wall". This book was the somber lead into the rest of our ceremony
- We started with explaining the meaning of all the items on our make-shift "Missing Man Table" and told the story of the miraculous survival of the table at the Fayetteville Memorial during Hurricane Matthew.
- Then we explained the history and meaning of the 21 gun salute, followed by Lance, Jared and Mac shooting off airsoft guns in "21 gun" unison.
- Next, I handed out a copy of the words to "Taps" (though no one sang), and explained the history of the song. Then we stood to a recording of it played.
- After Taps, Frank and Jared did the flag folding ceremony and I explained the meaning behind all 13 folds.
- Next I tearfully read of the what would have been said as the flag was presented to the widow/mother of Phil Marcoux, had this been his real ceremony.
- Chris then finished us up in prayer.
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