Here are ways to honor fallen service members this Memorial Day weekend in Fort Collins

Rebecca Powell, Fort Collins Coloradoan
Updated ·3 min read

Memorial Day — Monday, May 29 — is almost here, and here's a list of events around Northern Colorado to honor military members who died in service to their country.

Veterans Plaza of Northern Colorado events

At south entrance of Spring Canyon Community Park, 2626 W. Horsetooth Road, Fort Collins

Field of Honor: 500 American flags will fly in formation May 26-29, and visitors can walk among the flags and read the medallions attached to them that honor individuals. It's meant to honor veterans, active military members, first responders, medical workers, community leaders, teachers and personal heroes, according to Andy Groeger, president of the Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary, which sponsors this event. You can also honor a particular person with a medallion by going to www.rotaryfcbreakfast.org. Funds raised through medallion sales go to Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Foundation to support local nonprofits that provide services to veterans and first responders and benefit local and international service projects undertaken by Fort Collins Breakfast Rotary Foundation.

Traveling Vietnam Wall: View it through Monday. The iconic black panels list the names of the U.S. service members who died or went missing during the Vietnam War.

Schedule:

  • Friday, May 26 to Monday, May 29: A reading of the 58,318 names of American servicemen and women who died will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day. Each evening, there will be a prayer with honor/color guard, 21-gun salute, piper and Taps.

  • 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday: Veteran-serving organizations will have booths open; helicopter display; food vendors

  • Noon to 1:15 p.m. Sunday: A program including: presentation of colors; "The Star-Spangled Banner"; prayer; missing man table; local KIA; flyover; soils ceremony; and keynote speaker Tony Seahorn.

Grandview Cemetery and Roselawn Cemetery events

  • Grandview, 1900 W. Mountain Ave., Fort Collins: 10:15 a.m. Monday, water ceremony and procession to Section S. You can also view the American flags planted at the cemetery by Boy Scout Troop 96, from 3 p.m. Friday to 6 p.m. Monday.

  • Roselawn, 2718 E. Mulberry St.: 1:30 p.m. Monday, ceremony

Loveland events

10:30 to 11 a.m. Memorial Day: Memorial Day Ceremony of Loveland Burial Park, 1702 N. Cleveland Ave. The Associated Veterans of Loveland will honor the service of military members.

Windsor events

9 a.m. Memorial Day: American Legion Post 109 will host a Memorial Day Remembrance Ceremony at Lakeview Cemetery, at the southwest corner of Colorado highways 392 and 257. Park in the field west of the cemetery.

Closures to be aware of

Fort Collins: Essential services such as fire, police and utilities will operate as usual on Monday, May 29, but all city offices will be closed. The Gardens on Spring Creek and all three city golf courses will keep their regular hours. City Park Pool will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Other recreation facilities and the Museum of Discovery will be closed. Transfort will be operate under holiday service, but Transfort customer service and parking services will not be available.

Larimer County: Administrative Services, the District Attorney's Office, and the landfill will be closed Monday.

Loveland: All city offices are closed Monday, along with the Chilson Senior Center, Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland Public Library, the Recycling Center, Rialto Theater box office. The Chilson Recreation Center will be open from 5:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. with limited group fitness classes. There will be no trash collection on Monday and service will be delayed one day for the rest of the week. There will be no COLT bus service. Essential services will remain operational.

Windsor: Windsor Town Hall, Public Services, the police department, and the Community Recreation Center will be closed Monday. Windsor police remain on duty.

Editor's note: This story has a correction. The traveling Vietnam wall will be escorted into town about 11 a.m. Thursday, May 25. Due to a source error, the time was incorrect in an earlier version of this story.

If you have a Memorial Day event or closure, send information to RebeccaPowell@coloradoan.com or call 970-416-3969 so we can add it to this list.

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