October 2020

GROUNDBREAKING
CEREMONY FOR THE
AMERICAN INDIAN
VETERANS MEMORIAL
Support Committee Chairman Paul
Adkins and RNCSC Treasurer, acting as
MC, Michael Warren; Tribal Leaders and
Area Donors representing donations
made to honor their Veterans, Riverside
National Cemetery Memorial Honor
Detail, Chairman of the Board Daniel
L. Smith III; UCR Professors Michelle
Raheja and Robert Perez on behalf
of The Veterans Legacy Program;
Members of the American Indian
Alaska Native Veterans Memorial
Committee: AIANVMC Honorary
Chairman and Tribal Chairman of
the Rincon Band of Luiseňo Indians
Bo Mazzetti, US Navy Veteran;
Chairwoman Sharron Savage; Vice
Chairman Frank Johnson, US Army
Veteran; Veterans Representative
Angelo Schunke, USN Retired; Saginaw
Grant, Actor and USMC Veteran;
Manny Mendivil USMC Veteran; Roy
“Two Bears” Delarosa, USMC Veteran,
Spiritual Advisor and Commander
of Color Guard for Native American
Veterans Association, Downey, CA;
former AIANVMC Vice Chairman
Michael Lombardi, accompanied by
Juanita Lombardi and Jingle Dancer
Dominique Lombardi
Guest Speakers and Honored Guests
Dept. of Veterans Affairs Secretary
Robert L. Wilkie; National Cemetery
Administration Under Secretary of
Memorial Affairs Randy Reeves;
Riverside National Cemetery Director
Pete Young: National American
Indian Veterans, Inc., Chief of Staff,
and Louisiana Dept. of Veterans Due to the National Cemetery
Affairs Secretary Joey Strickland, Administration’s Covid19 pandemic
US Army Ret., accompanied by Leila protection regulations, the ground
Strickland; Sculptor of THE GIFT, breaking will be filmed and available in
Thomas Schomberg, accompanied October on aianveteransmemorial.com.
by Cynthia Schomberg; Baxter Miller,
RLA, President blma, inc., and President Riverside National Cemetery,
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