Prattville honors fallen service members with Memorial Day wreath ceremony
Prattville’s Memorial Day observance centered on a wreath, taps and a POW-MIA table outside the courthouse, with Post 122 and VFW Post 1349 leading the tribute.
Veterans and local organizers kept Prattville’s Memorial Day remembrance centered on service and sacrifice Monday outside the Autauga County Courthouse, where members of American Legion Post 122 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1349 laid a wreath, paused for taps and a moment of silence, and stood before flags flown at half-staff. The observance also included a symbolic remembrance table for prisoners of war and those missing in action, a reminder that the day reaches beyond ceremony to those who never came home.
Charles Marsh, commander of American Legion Post 122, framed the holiday around the cost borne by military members, while guest speaker Gladys Leonard, the third division vice commander, emphasized the military’s role in protecting freedom. Their remarks gave the observance a local voice rooted in Prattville’s veterans community, with Marsh and Leonard carrying the message in front of the courthouse and the flags that were lowered in honor of the nation’s fallen service members.
The City of Prattville lists the Memorial Day Wreath Ceremony as an annual event, with the 2026 observance set for 11:00 a.m. CDT on May 25. That fixed hour outside the Autauga County Courthouse has become one of the city’s most visible civic rituals, anchored by the same veterans organizations year after year and built around public remembrance rather than pageantry.
Memorial Day is intended to honor more than one million men and women who have died in U.S. military service since the Revolutionary War, and Prattville’s observance gave that national history a local setting. With American Legion Post 122 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1349 leading the ceremony, the community marked the holiday as an active responsibility, one sustained in Autauga County by the people who keep the names, symbols and sacrifices in view long after the morning ends.
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