The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, May 30, 1995                  TAG: 9505300094
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HONORING THOSE WHO SERVED

ILLUSTRATION: BILL TIERNAN/Staff color photos

Chuck Neeson of Norfolk, who served in the Navy from 1945 to '75,

holds the flag during an observance Monday morning in a small

cemetery at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth.

Participants in a memorial vigil place flags of remembrance in front

of the Tidewater Veterans Memorial in Virginia Beach, including a

picture of Marine Private First Class Michael Hopkins, who died July

4, 1966, in Vietnam.

by CNB