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Memorial Day Weekend in New Castle County, Delaware [B-Roll]

Delaware National Guard Public Affairs

May 22, 2020 | 13:37

Statues, monuments, and markers, to honor and remember yesterday’s service members, stand in location throughout New Castle County, Delaware, May 22, 2020. This b-roll package contains footage taken during Memorial Day weekend at the African-American Medal of Honor Recipients Memorial (Wilmington), Vietnam War Memorial (Wilmington), William McKinley Coffee Break Monument (Wilmington), Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery (Wilmington), Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Cemetery (Greenville), All Saints Cemetery (Wilmington), Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery (Bear), and the African Union Church Cemetery (Delaware City).

Featured gravesites include Thomas W. Dolan, 2nd Delaware Infantry Regiment (Civil War); Henry F. Jamar, 4th Delaware Infantry Regt. (Civil War); Jas. H. Floyd, 3rd Delaware Infantry Regt. (Civil War); William Baker, 3rd Delaware Infantry Regt. (Civil War); Thomas A. Simpson, 1st Delaware Infantry Regt. (Civil War); Washington Cloud, 1st Delaware Infantry Regt. (Civil War); Anne Lynch Markey, U.S. Navy, (World War II); Joseph “Beau” R. Biden III, Delaware Army National Guard (Iraq War); Margaret F. Hyatt, U.S. Army (WWII); Matthew M. Flocco, Navy (September 11); Elizabeth “Liz” A. Loncki, U.S. Air Force (Iraq); Jon E. Willis, U.S. Marine Corps (Vietnam War); David H. Sparks Sr, Air Force (Vietnam); Anthony P. Roberts, Marines (Iraq); and James Elbert, 8th Regiment United States Colored Troops (Civil War).