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Rhode Island National Guard over Memorial Day Weekend

01:00 AM EDT on Friday, May 28, 2004

Members of the 43rd Military Police Brigade will be at the following parades and ceremonies. The 43rd encompasses members of the 115th, 118th and 119th units, most of whom returned from Iraq in April.

Saturday

Memorial Day Ceremony

Rhode Island Veterans' Action Center

Prairie Avenue, Providence

11 a.m.

Sunday

Memorial Day Parade

Steps off at 1 p.m. from Andrews Hardware, Route 1

Charlestown

Monday

Memorial Day Ceremony at Monastery

Diamond Hill Road

Cumberland

11 a.m.

Ceremony at Rhode Island Veterans Cemetery

Remarks from Maj. Gen. Reginald Centracchio

Exeter

2 p.m.

Ceremony at Johnston Memorial Park

Johnston

9:30 a.m.

Memorial Day Parades

Barrington

Steps off at 9:30 a.m. from Upland Way

Bristol

Steps off at 9:30 a.m. from North Burial Ground

Coventry

Steps off at 9 a.m. at Route 117 at MacArthur Boulevard

Cranston

Steps off at 10 a.m. at intersection of Doric and Park Avenues

Lincoln

Steps off at 11 a.m. from Smithfield Avenue

North Kingstown

Steps off at 10 a.m. at Wilson Park

Scituate

Steps off at 10:30 a.m. from Berkander Field and Institute Lane

South Kingstown

Steps off at 10 a.m. from School Street and Kingstown Road

Warren

Steps off at 8:30 a.m. from the common

Westerly-Pawcatuck

Steps off at 9:30 a.m. from the Pawcatuck Shopping Center

West Greenwich

Steps off at 1:30 p.m. at Coventry/West Greenwich town line

Air Guard

The Rhode Island Air Guard

will participate in

Memorial Day Parade in Riverside

Steps off 10 a.m. at Oldham School

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