Members of the Prattville Dragoons Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp 1524 attended the Children of the Confederacy Christmas program at Confederate Memorial Park on Saturday December 2. Dragoons' Commander Waldo as well as compatriots Bill Hamner and Tyrone Crowley with his wife attended as well as Alabama Division Lt Commander John Land. The event is sponsored by the United Daughters of the Confederacy who provided Christmas presents for the children as well as delicious food and beverages for a lunch prior to the event start. The program was led entirely by the children of the CofC including pledges and salutes to the US, Christian, Alabama and Confederate Battle flags. Songs including the Star Spangled Banner, Faith of Our Father, Alabama and Dixie were sung in between those pledges. The flags were posted by fathers of the children. The childrens' chaplain also led prayers and responsive readings and the CofC creed. Introductions were made of the ladies of the UDC. UDC VP Bearden provided a message of the importance of diaries from the period of the War Between the States which provided first person accounts of the struggles and sacrifices made by the soldiers in battle as well as their families at home. The children participated in the decoration of a Christmas tree there in the CMP chapel. Commander Waldo and Mr. Hamner helped hand out the goodie bags, journals and ornaments as Christmas gifts. A number of them performed songs on instruments including keyboard and stringed harp and Commander Waldo's children played the French horn and snare drum for the Twelve Days of Christmas. Afterward, a Christmas wreath was placed in one of the veterans' cemeteries there at the park. It was an enjoyable and meaningful Christmas event for the children and the adults there.
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