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The Week Ahead: Memorial Day weekend events return
FAIRFIELD Covid-19 forced the cancellation of many of the traditional Memorial Day events in 2020, but those remembrances return this year across the county.
The Sacramento Valley National Cemetery is looking for volunteers to help put flags out at the gravesites Saturday and Sunday. The cemetery is located at 5810 Midway Road. Anyone interested in helping should contact the cemetery at 693-2460.
Private wreath-laying events are scheduled at the cemetery near Dixon and at the Benicia Arsenal Post Cemetery.
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Sam Katchmar
May 11, 1928 May 2, 2021
Sam was born on May 11, 1928, in Minersville, Pennsylvania. In 1936, Sam and his family, a widowed mother and five other siblings, emigrated to Poland to make a living on a small 10-acre farm owned by Sam.
Sam returned to the United States in 1948 and promptly enlisted into the USAF, where he remained for 20 years. He served in four locations all in the Far East. All of 1952 he was stationed at Kangnung Base, Korea; in 1955 in Tachikawa AFB, Japan; in 1966 he was stationed in Formosa, Taiwan, and in 1968, stationed at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska, with this base still considered an overseas base.
Vacaville cemetery site of Memorial Day remembrance
The ceremony will start at 11 a.m. The keynote speaker will be veterans advocate Kelli Germeraad.
“As a military wife, daughter and mother, Mrs. Germeraad felt called to duty over 30 years ago in support of those who serve in our armed forces and who often pay the ultimate price for our freedom,” Jeff Jewell, event chairman, said in a statement released by the Vacaville veterans group.
“From working with members of Congress for changes to Agent Orange policies to spearheading the successful effort to bring the Fairfield VA Outpatient Clinic to Travis (Air Force Base), Kelli has been tireless in her efforts to better the lives of veterans,” Jewell said in the statement. “Mrs. Germeraad has taken an active leadership role in numerous local organizations including 20 years as the American Legion Auxiliary Department of California deputy to the Fairfield VA (Outpatient Clinic)/David Grant (U.S. Air Force) Medical Center/Fi