The annual Memorial Day program at the Veterans Park is set for Memorial Day afternoon at 6 p.m. The program will again recognize by name all those who have given their life in combat, beginning with the Revolutionary War.

There also will be a report from Alpha Battery, 1/118 Field Artillery Battalion, regarding their recently-completed deployment to Afghanistan.

Also participating in the program will be the Effingham Community Orchestra and the JROTC unit from Effingham County High School.

“It is a time for remembrance,” said Ruth Lee, chairperson of the Veterans Park board of directors. “We urge citizens to come out with their friends, relatives and neighbors for this special time set aside in our country for remembering. We currently have 61 individuals recognized as ‘killed-in-action’ by the in-laid stones on the plaza near the flame. It is our opportunity to recognize that we have citizens who go forth and ‘give all’, the supreme sacrifice, their life.”