Sunday, September 30, 2012
Palatine honoring the service and sacrifice of two Firefighters who lost their lives in the line-of-duty on Oct. 1, 1946.
The Palatine Fire Department hosts a memorial ceremony Monday to honor the service and sacrifice of Firefighters Wesley Comfort III and Leonard Nebel who lost their lives in the line-of-duty when their fire engine collided with a passenger train in downtown Palatine on Oct. 1, 1946. The memorial service will be held at the Palatine Firefighters Memorial near the intersection of N. Brockway and W. Slade Streets in downtown Palatine and is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Monday, Oct. 1. During the 20-minute ceremony, members of the Palatine Fire Department will speak, the Palatine Fire Department Honor Guard will present the flags and members of the department will present a memorial wreath. It was in the early morning hours of Oct. 1, …
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N Brockway St & W Slade St, Palatine, IL
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Palatine marked the 11th anniversary of 9/11 with a memorial ceremony at Palatine's Firefighter Memorial Tuesday morning.
On the 11th anniversary, the Village of Palatine held a memorial ceremony to honor the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.“9/11 is our generations day of infamy and we will never forget it,” said Palatine Firefighter, Mark Hallet. In front of Palatine's Firefighter Memorial Tuesday morning Hallet said 9/11 forever changed Americans and people all across the world, “I think we see the images everyday.” More than a decade later, the now retired firefighter said the images, events, emotions and everything else from that day are still clear in his memory and ingrained in the minds of firefighters everywhere. “The day this occurred meant a lot of us,” Hallet said, “We realized if that were …
The Village of Palatine hosts a memorial ceremony on at 9 a.m. on Tuesday to honor those who lost their lives on 9/11.
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, the Village of Palatine will be hosting a memorial ceremony to honor those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The ceremony will be held at the Palatine Firefighters Memorial at the corner of N. Brockway and W. Slade Streets in downtown Palatine. The ceremony is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and will last one hour. Palatine Fire Department members and retirees will be marching to the memorial site from Fire Station 85 at 39 E. Colfax Street. They will be accompanied by the Palatine Fire Department Honor Guard and the Palatine Police Department Honor Guard with Palatine Firefighter Jeb Kaiser playing the bagpipes. Members of the Palatine Fire Department and Police Department Honor Guards…
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Craig Apelbaum
6:28 am on Monday, October 1, 2012
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