The Douglas Munro Memorial Ceremony was held in Cle Elum, Wash., near his grave at Laurel Hills Memorial Cemetery Sept. 27, 2016.
The ceremony coincided with the announcement that the Coast Guard’s sixth national security cutter, Munro, will be commissioned April 1, 2017, at the Smith Cove Cruise Terminal in Seattle.
U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross.
Capt. Sam Jordan, commanding of the old Coast Guard Cutter Munro, Douglas Sheehan, retired Coast Guard Reserve commander and the nephew of Douglas Munro, Capt. Tom King, commanding officer of the new cutter Munro, and members of the Sheehan family stand in front of an etched granite wall at the Laurel Hill Memorial Park in Cle Elum, Wash., Sept. 27, 2016.
The wall pays tribute to Douglas Munro, the only Coast Guardsmen to receive the Medal of Honor.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross.
Seaman Richards signs the guest book for a traveling Douglas Munro exhibit that was provided by Dale Nitz, curator of the Veterans Living History Museum in Port Orchard, Wash., as part of a ceremony honoring Munro at the Laurel Hills Memorial Cemetery Sept. 27, 2016.
The ceremony is held every year around the anniversary of Munro’s death on the Guadalcanal, where he was mortally wounded while voluntarily evacuating a detachment of U.S. Marines under attack from a larger force.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross.
Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Deaton, a bugler from Navy Band Northwest in Silverdale, Wash., bows his head during a memorial ceremony held at the Laurel Hill Memorial Park in Cle Elum, Sept. 27, 2016.
The ceremony honors Coast Guard Signalman 1st Class Douglas Munro and is held at his gravesite each year.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Norcross.
The original release on the cutter Munro announcement can be found here: http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2886794/