Glenn Myers to speak at Spring Hill veterans service

Spring Hill Memorial Funeral Home and the City of Spring Hill will host the 14th Annual Veterans Day Memorial Service at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8. Spring Hill Memorial Funeral Home is located at 5239 Main Street in Spring Hill.

The event celebrates patriotism and community, and includes music and special guest speakers. This year’s theme is “Remembering and Celebrating Veterans,” and the guest speaker is retired Lt. Col. Glenn Myers from the U.S. Air Force

Myers was born in 1941 in East McKeesport, Pa. He was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Air Force through the ROTC program at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., on Jan. 19, 1965, and on active duty beginning April 19, 1965. 

Myers next completed Undergraduate Pilot Training and was awarded his pilot wings at Moody AFB, Georgia, in May 1966, followed by Tactical Reconnaissance Training and RF-4C Phantom II Combat Crew Training, from May to September 1966.

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