Middle Peninsula Detachment #1317 of the Marine Corps League will host this year’s Memorial Day program in Gloucester. Sunday’s program will begin at 3 p.m. on the steps of the Gloucester courthouse in front of the Gloucester Veterans Memorial Wall.
American Legion Post 75 normally hosts the Memorial Day program, but that organization has switched with the Marine Corps League this year and will instead host the Veterans Day program while Detachment #1317 celebrates the 250th birthday of the Marine Corps on Nov. 10, said Jodey Clements, the detachment’s adjutant/paymaster.
Retired Navy Admiral William Will is Sunday’s guest speaker. A native of Pennsylvania, Will is also a reverend. While in high school, he joined the Pennsylvania National Guard with the intent to ultimately join the military as his career.In early 1954, he felt a call to the ministry and enrolled in West Virginia Wesleyan College to begin the path to the ministry. He graduated in 1958, and then enrolled in Duke Univers...