DEDICATION OF CAMP LEE-STEPHENSON MEMORIAL PARK
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2005, 2:30 PM
QUODDY VILLAGE
EASTPORT, MAINE
Today is the 61st anniversary of the dedication of the original memorial to Lt. Lee and Stephenson, who were killed in World War Two. Because of the efforts of a dedicated group of Seabee veterans, Island X-24 Navy Seabee Veterans of America, we are gathered to dedicated this park along with two new plaques they have donated.
The first plaque is a copy of the original that was to Lee and Stephenson. The second plaque is dedicated to 30 enlisted Seabees killed in the Second World War. The U.S. Navy memorialized the names of these Seabees in the street names of Quoddy Village when it was Camp Lee-Stephenson. After the base was closed, these street names were retained by the City of Eastport.
INTRODUCTION
George “Buddy” Finch, Eastport City Manager
GUESTS OF HONOR
Island X-24 Navy Seabee Veterans of America
NATIONAL ANTHEM
Chris Mulcahy
INVOCATION
Father David Sivret, Chaplain of the 133th Engineer Combat Battalion Heavy Maine Army National Guard.
SPEAKERS
George “Buddy” Finch, Eastport City Manager
Jim Arnold, Island X-24 Navy Seabee Veterans of America
John Grady, U. S. Army Air Corps W.W. II
Gail Kelly for Senator Olympia Snowe
UNVEILING OF THE MONUMENT
WREATH LAYING CEREMONY
BENEDICTION
Father David Sivert, Chaplain of the 133th Engineer Combat Battalion Heavy
Maine Army National Guard
END OF CEREMONY
COLOR GUARD UNITS INVITED TO DEDICATION
United Veterans Honor Guard of Washington County
U. S. Coast Guard Station, Eastport
27th Naval Mobile Construction Battalion, U. S. Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine
U. S. Naval Air Station Brunswick, Maine
Plaque Reads:
IN MEMORAIM
LT. IRWIN W. LEE (C.E.C.) U.S.N.R. &
LT (JG) GEORGE S STEPHENSON (C.E.C.)
WERE KILLED 2, JULY 1943
WHILE LEADING THEIR TROOPS IN COMBAT
AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.
THEY WERE THE FIRST TWO OFFICERS
OF THE CIVIL ENGINEER CORPS
TO LOSE THEIR LIVES IN COMBAT
WHILE SERVING WITH A
U.S. NAVAL CONSTRUCTION BATTALION.
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