NYS DOCS Memorial Monument Dedication Ceremony at Training Academy in Albany |
MC: Ladies and Gentlemen, please take your seats ... We are about to begin today's program. Thank you.
My name is Lucien Leclaire. I am Commissioner Goord's Deputy Commissioner for Facility Operations. I will be the emcee for today's ceremony. In just a moment, Commissioner Goord and the Governor's Director of Criminal Justice will escort the families of today's 32 honorees from the Training Academy. They will be accompanied by some members of the state Legislature and other invited guests. They will be preceded by two bagpipers, Fishkill Correction Officer Michael Hudson and Gouverneur Correction Officer Jeff Forsythe. Would everyone please stand in honor of the honorees' families joining us today . . . . Please remain standing through the praying of the Invocation.
MC: Please turn around to face the Academy for the posting of the colors. Color Guard, please post the colors. . . .
MC: Would everyone please be seated.
I would like to welcome each of you to our first ceremony to honor our colleagues who died as a result of inmate action, and to dedicate this outdoor memorial and the memorial room inside of the Training Academy.
Let me introduce the dais behind me. They are:
[The emcee then introduces members of the dais to speak, including Commissioner Goord who introduces Commissioner Lapp.]
MC: Thank you, Director Lapp. Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today for the first of what will be an annual remembrance of our colleagues who have died as the result of an inmate action. They will forever be remembered at this memorial site, and in the memorial room of the Training Academy.
It is my honor to read the names of our heroes. Would everyone please stand.
[As the emcee slowly reads the 32 name, the drummer sounds one drumbeat for each name. Uniformed forces stand at attention.]
MC: Commissioner Goord and Director Lapp ... would you now place the wreath in front of the memorial.
[After the Commissioners place the wreath and return to their seats, the rifle squad fires three, seven-shot volleys, afterwich buglers blow Taps.]
MC: We would like to thank our drummer, Michael Tighe, for his services today. [After Benediction, the bagpipers pipe one chorus of Amazing Grace followed by Mr. Gil singing one verse a cappella.]
MC: Please be seated. I know that the survivors and others with us here today would like to lay flowers at the base of the memorial. They are welcome to do so at the conclusion of this ceremony.
They and the rest of our guests are welcome to join us for food and refreshments which are located at the rear of the Academy.
Any of you who have not visited the memorial room inside the Training Academy are invited to do so after this ceremony.
Thank you once again for honoring the employees of this Department who have given their lives in the service of the people of New York State.
This concludes our ceremony.
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