Patriot Guard was invited to participate in the unveiling ceremony today for the statue bust of Staff Sgt. Marcus A. Golczynski, USMC. When Heather Golczynski (widow of SSG Golczynski) asked her son, Christian, what she should say about his Dad today he told her “Daddy was a great Marine”. SSG Golczynski’s family focused on “Never Forgetting” our fallen heroes and their families today along with remembering Marcus and their pride in him.

From the program:

“I want all of you to be safe. And please don’t feel bad for us. We are warriors. And as warriors have done before us, we joined this organization and are following orders because we believe that what we are doing is right. Many of us have volunteered to do this a second time due to our deep desire to finish the job we started. We fight and sometimes die so that our families don’t have to. Stand beside us. Because we would do it for you. Because it is our unity that has enabled us to prosper as a nation.”

Operation Never Forget honors our fallen heroes with life size bronze or marble bust statues. Todays ceremony was to unveil that statue of SSG Golzynski.

Lewisburg, Tn went all out in putting together this ceremony. Local support was amazing as has been demonstrated previously. There was a bit of controversy surrounding a photo of young Christian at the time of the memorial last year. If you’d like to read more about that go to Blackfive.

Christian Golczynski at last year’s memorial and at this year’s memorial.

The stature of SSG Golczynski

Other pictures taken today:

And a Patriot Guard mission honoring our military wouldn’t be complete without the Tn Patriot Guard Mascot

Additional pics from the Memorial. Not mine but another PGR member.

Hopefully, my other photos will be added soon to the TN photo page at the Patriot Guard forum.

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