Radnor will hold a drive-by Memorial Day

There will be a Memorial Day ceremony Monday in Radnor to honor the men and women who gave their lives defending the county’s freedoms, rights and liberties, according to the township website.

Radnor’s Memorial Day parade is one of the largest in the area and normally begins in St. David’s and parades west along Lancaster Avenue to the Township War Memorial on West Avenue.

The Memorial Day Parade Committee said they and veterans from the American Legion Post 418 and 668 have been working for weeks to remember the nation’s heroes.

During the morning, citizens are welcome to drive past the Radnor War Memorial

to honor the fallen or to leave flowers.

The ceremony will be broadcast live at noon on

Comcast/Verizon channel 21. Residents should not attend the event but are encouraged to watch it on television.

“We’re going to watch people parade past the memorial. They can drive by, pay their respects, to look at the memorial,” Martin Costello, American Legion official, said. “We’ll have a ceremony, advancement of the colors, invocation, pledge, guest speaker Commissioner Don Curley, laying of wreaths, reading of the 118 names on the wall and the 11 who have died in the war on terror, all of them from Valley Forge Military Academy. Veterans will also be placing flags in area cemeteries.

“We’re going to respect the war dead. Whether it is one of us up there or five of us, we are going to read those names,” Costello said.

MEDIANEWS GROUP FILE PHOTO American Legion Post 668Poppy Queen, Stella Scott, places a wreath at the Radnor War Memorial during a recent Radnor Memorial Day ceremony.

MEDIANEWS GROUP FILE PHOTO Kenneth Seitz, deputy commandant, Valley Forge Military Academy and College, places a wreath at the Radnor War Memorial at the Radnor Memorial Day service in 2016.