City of Walnut Creek Memorial Day Ceremony

The City of Walnut Creek will honor the memory of fallen soldiers during its traditional Memorial Day Ceremony on Monday, May 28. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m at the gazebo at Civic Park, corner of North Broadway and Civic Drive. 

Keynote speakers, retired Tech Sergeant Bob Tharratt and retired Sergeant Dick Ingraham, will tell the story of how a regiment of Ingraham’s Infantry Division liberated a group of POWs that included Tharratt, and how they discovered that connection more than 50 years later during a conversation at a Walnut Creek church.

Other highlights of the Memorial Day Ceremony include music by the Walnut Creek Concert Band under the direction of Harvey Benstein. Chaplain Dwane Michael of John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health System will give the invocation and blessing, and the National Guard will present the colors and close the ceremony with the traditional laying of the wreaths at the Veterans Memorial Plaza.

North Broadway between Civic Drive and Lincoln Avenue will be closed during the ceremony.