The Memorial Day Ceremony at the Freedom Museum at Manassas Airport will start at 2:30 PM with the reading of the names of Prince William service members who died during their military service followed by the National Moment of Silence at 3:00 PM and then the official opening of the PFC. Richard M. Bean display.

Cadet Samantha Reed of Manassas became regimental commander of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets during a Pass in Review - Change of Command ceremony May 2. Reed is a junior majoring in meteorology in the College of Natural Resources and Environment.

el. Richard L. Anderson (Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Retired), will present the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to surviving family members of Mr. Albert L. Jones, Sr., of Manassas, who served during World War II as a wartime member of the Auxiliary of the U.S. Army Air Forces, the Civil Air Patrol (CAP).

Board of County Supervisors will hold an Armed Forces & Memorial Day Ceremony at the War Memorial in Freedom Park on Saturday, May 16, 2015, at 10 a.m. Freedom Park is located on the grounds of the McCoart Government Complex in between the complex and Prince William Parkway.

Congressman Gerry Connolly is partnering with Prince William County Public Schools to host his annual “Military Service Academy Night” for area students interested in attending one of the Service Academies. The program will take place on Monday, April 20, at Freedom High School, located at 15201 Neabsco Mills Road, Woodbridge, VA 22191, beginning at 7 p.m.

Navy Federal Credit Union has closed a record-breaking $20 million deal with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation (MCHF) on a commercial construction loan to complete the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Va.

On Thursday, April 9, at 3:15 p.m., the bell in the Occoquan Town Hall rang for four minutes to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse and the end of the American Civil War.

Governor Terry McAuliffe March 24 announced the protection of 65 acres of Civil War battlefield in Williamsburg. The land is being donated by Anheuser-Busch to the Civil War Trust, a nonprofit organization devoted to preserving America’s battlegrounds. The property played a pivotal role in the 1862 Battle of Williamsburg, the first pitched battle of the Peninsula Campaign.