Veterans Day Observances

Sauk Prairie Veterans of Foreign Wars Lachmund-Cramer Post 7694 and Sauk City American Legion Kuoni-Reuter Post 167 will jointly conduct  two  public Veterans Day Ceremonies on Monday, November 11, 2022.  The first Ceremony will be held inside at the Grand Avenue Elementary School, located on Grand Avenue, Prairie du Sac, beginning at 9:00 am.  Entrance can be made thru the school parking lot location.  After the speaker,  the Grand Avenue fifth graders  will sing patriotic songs.

    The second Veterans Day Ceremony will be outside at the Sauk Prairie Area Veterans Memorial in Sauk City, at the entrance to Sauk City Riverfront Park, across from Hooverson Funeral Home. The public is asked to assemble at 10:45 am.  At 11:00 AM, Senior Post Commander James "Jim" Keys, will announce an observance of a “moment of silence,” to commemorate the time, 11:00 am, November 11, 1918, the armistice began the ending of the hostilities of World War I, then called the “Great War.”  United States President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Armistice Day for November 11, 1919.  In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the law changing the name of the observance on November 11, to the present day of “Veterans Day.”  Three volleys of 7 military rifles, and the playing of “taps,” by the Lachmund-Cramer Post 7694 Honor Guard, rendering the highest military honors, will conclude the Veterans Day Ceremony. 

     Special note will be made of the 1,108 area named veterans on the Sauk Prairie Area Veterans Memorial who served during the period from the Civil War thru South West Asia. The Memorial has 366 names of World War II veterans, 198 Korean War veteran, 329 Vietnam era veterans and 48 names of veterans who served in South West Asia