“I’m so proud of our community and this great turnout,” said South Lake Tahoe City Councilman Tom Davis during Monday’s annual Memorial Day Ceremony at Happy Homestead Cemetery.
A larger crowd than normal watched the ceremony which featured boys and girl scouts, music and speakers that included Gold Star Mom Patty Smith. Her son, Sgt. Timothy Michael Smith, was one of three South Lake Tahoe men to die in action since the September 11 attacks in 2001. Smith, 25, who died April 7, 2008, after his vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad.
