Veterans For Peace- LA Invites You to Veterans Day Weekend Tribute at Arlington West Friday, November 11th thru Sunday November 13th in Santa Monica
WHERE: Arlington West is North of the Santa Monica Pier on Beach (Near Santa Monica Fwy and Pacific Coast Hwy.)
WHEN: SUNDAY, NOV 13TH
9:30 - 10:00 AM: Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Director of Interfaith Inventions, will lead an interfaith Ceremony of Remembrance to commemorate the lives of those who perished and to comfort those who remain.
11:00 AM: Filmmaker Bruce Royer will screen A Line in the Sand (A documentary about Arlington West directed by Leszek Burzynski)
WHERE: Laemmle Monica 4-Plex Theatre, 1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401.
WHO: Gold Star Father, Bill Mitchell, and Veterans for Peace member will speak immediately following the screening.
12:30 PM: The theater audience will walk a few blocks south to view the memorial first hand and enjoy light refreshments with the veterans, Gold Star Families and Arlington West supporters.
2:00 PM: Gold Star Mother Jane Bright, of West Hills, son Army Sgt. Evan Ashcraft was KIA in Mosul Iraq on July 24, 2003
Joined by members of the interfaith community who will speak and read names of the soldiers.
4:30 PM: The memorial will be put away until the following Sunday, when it will be resurrected, as it has persistently been displayed, every Sunday for the past year and a half.
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