<font color=green>P.M. UPDATE: </font>Keetoowah Cherokee Tribe to host Laying of the Wreath Ceremony

May 28, 2009 01:03 pm

— The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma is inviting all veterans and their families to attend the “Laying of the Wreath” ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday. The event will be in front of the flag poles near the UKB Community Service Building at Keetoowah Circle off West Willis Road, just south of Tahlequah. The Veterans’ American Legion Riders, Post 15 of Muskogee will honor all veterans with the laying of the wreath ceremony.
The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic, war-time veterans’ organization, and devoted to mutual helpfulness. It is a not-for-profit community-service organization which now numbers nearly 3 million members, both men and women, in nearly 15,000 American Legion Posts worldwide.
For more information, contact Hominy Littledave at 431-1818.