Names Of Over 6,000 U.S. Servicemembers Who Gave Their Lives Since 9/11 Attacks Are Read Aloud At Wall of Remembrance In LB's Rosie the Riveter Park

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(May 28, 2018, 5:55 p.m.) -- As LBREPORT.com reported earlier today on our front page and Facebook page, the names of all 6,904 service members who gave their lives since the 9/11 attacks were aloud at Rosie the Riveter Park (Clark @ Conant in ELB) in an event presented by Honoring Our Fallen.

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Rosie the Riveter Park was a project built without using taxpayer fund under former 5th dist. Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske. The Wall of Remembrance displaying the engraved names of each of post 9/11 fallen servicemembers was built by Honoring Our Fallen, a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides support for families of fallen military members as they're returned home for burial.

Honoring our Fallen says its Wall of Remembrance is the only memorial that lists all U.S. fallen servicemembers since the 9/11 attacks and the only memorial in Los Angeles County honoring those who gave their lives after the 9/11 attacks.

The ceremony began one minute after dawn and lasted until the final name was read shortly after noon. Those reading the names included active duty servicemembers, police officers, veterans and relatives of those who perished.

Gold Star Mother Jane Maher, whose sons -- USAF Staff Sgt. Andrew Harvell and USAF Technical Sgt. Sean Harvell have names engraved on the Wall of Remembrance -- was among those reading names of the fallen.

Along with other Long Beach Hometown Heroes, the Harvell brothers have Flags of Honor posted 24/7/365 at the Park.

Also present for the event was Didi MacPherson, the Gold Star Mother of U.S. Army Ranger Sgt. Thomas MacPherson, who perished on his fifth deployment to Afghanistan. In photo below, Ms. MacPherson is interviewed by Pete Demetriou of KNX/1070 Newsradio. Other media outlets covering the ceremony included KTLA/5 and ABC7.

Sgt. MacPherson's name is also among the flags of Hometown Heroes displayed at the Park.

Honoring Our Fallen, led by Founder/Executive Director Laura Herzog, provides support for families of fallen military members as they're returned home for burial.

Ms. Herzog speaks with a veteran at the event.

The event wasn't widely publicized in advance. (LBREPORT.com only learned about it shortly after dawn from KNX's radio report.) Honoring Our Fallen says it only received an official right-of-entry from LB Parks a few days earlier, and also faced the task of engraving additional names of fallen service members (the most recent in early May.) As a result, organizers weren't confident the event could be held exactly as promised until just days ago.

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