Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial

2009 Independence Day Ceremony

Sunday July 5th, 2009 @ 6:30pm

Our annual Independence Day ceremony will be held to mark Independence Day and remember those who have fallen.

Join us at the corner of Bryan and Yale Avenue in Irvine at Northwood Park, where the memorial is located, one mile and a half east of the Irvine Market Place on Bryan Avenue.

2009 Memorial Takedown

Friends and Neighbors:

We are requesting your assistance to help take down the Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial at Northwood Community Park this year. This was our 7th year of honoring our fallen service members with this temporary memorial.

Take down is scheduled for Monday July 6th, 2009 at 4:30 pm at Northwood Community Park located at the corner of Yale and Bryan in Irvine, CA.

For more information or to let us know that you can help, contact Andy at 949-551-1985 or adzsanta@yahoo.com

We can do it...you can help!!

Freedom Is Not Free

WWI 1917-1918
KIA 116,516

WWII 1940-1945
KIA 405,339

Korean War 1950-1953
KIA 36,568

Vietnam War 1964-1975
KIA 58,203

Persian War 1990-1991
KIA 382

Friends and Neighbors:

We are requesting your assistance to help set up and maintain the Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial at Northwood Community Park this year. This will be our 7th year of honoring our fallen service members with this temporary memorial.

Setup is scheduled for Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at 9:00am at Northwood Community Park located at the corner of Yale and Bryan in Irvine, CA.

For more information or to let us know that you can help, contact Andy at 949-551-1985 or adzsanta@yahoo.com

We can do it...you can help!!

Each year (since 2003) the Northwood Memorial (Gratitude & Honor) is set up one week before Memorial Day & taken down one week after Independence Day.

During this time we invite you to join us to honor our fallen military members each evening at 7:15 pm when we light a candle for each memorial, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, play taps and take time to reflect on the honor and gratitude we have for these heroes.

The Northwood Memorial is located at the Northwood Community Park at the corner of in Yale and Bryan in Irvine. For more information contact northwoodmemorial@yahoo.com

Click the image below to play the Northwood Memorial documentary video

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We come here everyday

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors to provide fresh flowers, water, ribbons, bows, flags, pictures, information, wreaths, mementos.

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors to look, to read, to think, to ponder.

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors to help.

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors to greet each other.

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors to sadly add to this memorial.

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors to light candles.

We come here everyday as friends and neighbors to hear taps.

Let us not ever forget why we come here every day.

We come here everyday.