Want to celebrate the first official battle of the American Revolutionary War (as declared by Congress in 1901)? Go to Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and join the hundreds of others who think as you do. On a very bright, literally cloudless day, when it was 76 degrees outside, and a light breeze was blowing, many Patriotic Organizations did just that. The came from New Hampshire to Kansas and California, and from Georgia to Ohio and Pennsylvania to celebrate a memorial service for the brave heroes who fought at Point Pleasant, West Virginia. See what they did there .....
Photos and captions provided by LCDR Bob Yankle, USN (Ret.), Assistant Webmaster and Principal Photographer, NCSSAR, except as otherwise noted