WORLAND – American Legion Post 44 in Worland will be commemorating Memorial Day with observances at the Riverview Memorial Gardens Cemetery and Ten Sleep Cemetery Monday, with a brunch at the American Legion hall in between ceremonies.

Starting at 11 a.m. at the Riverview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Worland, Legion Honor Guard will hold an observance for fallen servicemen at the Arch in Memory of Valiant. The ceremony will include an invocation by Reverend Edward Farmer, a wreath laying, a presentation of "In Flanders Fields" by local Boys Scouts of America, and a three-gun volley salute.

The Worland ceremony will be followed by a brunch at the American Legion.

The ceremony will repeat at 2:30 p.m. at the Ten Sleep Cemetery.

The keynote speaker for both services will be Senior Airman Trent Eckerdt, 153 C&C Squadron, F.E. Warren Air Force Base. Eckerdt is a cyber transport technician. He enlisted into active duty in August 2011. When he is serving full time in the Air Force, he is a business owner and is pursuit of a computer science and a business degree.

He was deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Doha, Qatar, from September 2015 to April 2016, where he managed $85 million worth of network equipment.

The Thermopolis VFW will be hosting a breakfast at 10 a.m., with a ceremony following at 11 a.m. at the Monument Hill Cemetery, and at 11:30 a.m. at the Riverside Cemetery, with a wreath laying.

Also in Thermopolis, the Hawk's Avenue of Flags will be setting up at 7 a.m. at Monument Hill Cemetery. Sen. Wyatt Agar (R-Thermopolis) will speak and say a prayer. The Wyoming Highway Patrol, Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office and Thermopolis Police Department have committed to putting up the flags. This year there will be 92 poles and flags. In the inaugural year last year, there were 65 flags.