Amity Honor Roll Committee

A few years back the town purchased an acre of land attached to the existing town lot going south. The town purchased this for a possible future addition to the town office and to move the Veterans Honor Roll out of the Cemetery.

The Select Board appointed a committee at the beginning of the year 2024. The committee was tasked with moving the existing Honor Roll to the new lot.

The committee received some new information, some from the Select Board, a local citizen and some from a local Veteran raising some issues for consideration. We had discovered there were some missed spelled names. missing names, and possibly names that shouldn't be there.  The current stone is often overlooked as it looks like just another gravestone.

After taking all these things into consideration during our discussions of how to best fix this; it was unanimously decide the only proper thing to do is to replace the old stone with a new larger stone with all the names on one side of the stone.

It is for these reasons we have decided to replace the stone with a very nice Honor Roll to Honor our beloved Veterans. This Honor Roll will be placed at the Town Office Complex on this new lot. We will be taking the time needed to try to ensure all mistakes are corrected, no new mistakes are made and we have an impressive Honor Roll we all can be very proud of. We owe our Veterans no less.

The criteria to be placed on the Honor Roll is:

• Born and/or brought up in Amity.
• Resident of Amity when entering the service.
• Have lived in Amity 40 or more years.

Please contact us using the link below if you know of anyone whose name is spelled incorrectly; anyone who should be on the Honor Roll, but isn't. Please be able to show proof with any confidential information redacted. We would like to list the Veterans by the war they served in or if they served during peace time. We would be very appreciative if you can supply this information on any of our Veterans to us.

Service categories:

• Pre World War One
• World War One
• World War Two
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• Persian Gulf War
• Peace Time Service

Even if you aren't sure if they should or shouldn't be on the Honor Roll please contact us. We will look into it.

If anyone has a readable picture of the old Honor Roll that was in front of the church. We would greatly appreciated a copy of it as we may be able to gain some very useful information from it.

Thank you greatly for any information you are able to provide.

NOTE: I would like to add another Veteran to our committee if anyone is interested. Please contact us at the link below.

Respectfully submitted,
Larry Hamilton (Chairman)

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If you are a veteran or a widow of a veteran 62 Years of age and a resident of Amity, you may be eligible for a tax exemption. "Veteran" means any person who was in active service in the armed forces of the United States; and who, if discharged, retired or separated from the armed forces, was discharged, retired, or separated under other then dishonorable conditions. A Veteran must have served during a federally recognized war period, including the Korean Campaign, the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf War.

Maine Veterans are entitled to Military Funeral Honors

Military Funeral Honors is now an entitlement for all honorably discharged Veterans. There are no costs what so ever associated with this program.

The rendering of Military Funeral Honors for United States Armed Forces Veterans is a tribute that our Veterans and their families justly deserve and in fact, are now entitled to. It is a way to show our Nation's deep gratitude to those who, in times of war and peace, have faithfully defended our country. Section 578 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2000 requires the Department of Defense to provide, upon request, Military Funeral Honors for eligible Veterans.

The Maine Military Funeral Honors Program began performing Military Funeral Honors Ceremonies for Maine's Veterans in late 2004. Since its inception, we have performed over 2300 ceremonies from Fort Kent to Kittery and eastern Canada.

According to the Maine Veteran's Administration, Maine is losing nearly 4000 Veterans a year, (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Army Air Corps and Merchant Marines). This rate is expected to continue with very slow reductions through the year 2030.

Any person, Active Duty, National Guard, Reserve and Merchant Marines, who received an honorable discharge, is now entitled to an appropriate Military Funeral Honors Ceremony performed by US Military active duty service members.

Standards: The currently serving, US Military members of the Maine Military Funeral Honors Team are trained to the highest possible standards. Military Funeral Honors is their full time duty. The Service Members selected to perform these ceremonies for Maine Veterans are extremely proud of what they are doing. They have the utmost respect and admiration for those who served before them.

We have 6 Military Funeral Honors Trainers on the team who have all attended a 2 week course and have been certified as instructors by Arlington National Cemetery. Veterans of Maine will receive a Military Funeral Honors Ceremony performed to the same high standard as those ceremonies being performed at Arlington National Cemetery. Maine Veterans deserve no less than perfection.

I strongly encourage all Veterans residing in Maine to allow these dedicated members of the United States Military to perform this ceremony and to simply express our appreciation for their dedicated service to our country.

Whenever individuals decide to join the Armed Forces of the United States they promise to put themselves between the people of the United States and those who would harm us. To honor this promise and sacrifice, we are committed to doing all that we can to support our Veterans & the families of those Veterans.

Funeral Honors Request Form to be faxed in by your Funeral Director.