![]() ![]() The American Legion Riders Post 112 in Montville organized the ceremony. "I can come and sit, and I hope people come and share this memory with us and pass it on to their children." It's his spot now, this is his spot," Gladys Rivera said. "But now the tree is him, and it grows, the same like his life. We see Ahn, how he would walk in the park and play with the dogs," Tan Patchem said. ![]() Now, both mothers will return to the park to visit the trees, which they see as an extension of their sons. She brought bread so he could feed the ducks. Gladys Rivera liked to watch Edwin run around and play by the pond when he was a child. Tan Patchem and Ahn used to walk their dogs, Moe and Snoop, there. On Sunday, in another show of the community's support for the families, a ceremony was held to plant a tree and dedicate a plaque in Rivera's honor and to add a plaque in front of Chanawongse's tree in the park next to the duck pond near Town Hall. Edwin Rivera, 28, was killed in May in eastern Afghanistan as thousands more U.S. Kemaphoom "Ahn" Chanawongse, 22, was killed in Iraq at the start of the war there, and then Connecticut National Guard Staff Sgt. Waterford has lost two men in the current conflicts - first Marine Cpl. Nearby, Tan and Paul Patchem looked at the plaque that was added in front of their son's white lilac tree, which has doubled in size in the seven years since his death. Waterford - Gladys Rivera cried as she kissed a branch from the weeping cherry tree that was planted in her son's honor.Ĭeferino Rivera knelt and used his hands to level the soil around the tree. Family members of both families attended the ceremony Army SSG Edwin Rivera and a plaque for Marine Cpl. The American Legion Riders Post 112 in Montville conducted a ceremony in the park next to the Waterford duck pond to dedicate a tree and plaque for U. Kemaphoom "Ahn" Chanawongse was killed in Iraq in 2003. Army SSG Edwin Rivera, killed in Afghanistan, is comforted by Tan Patchem of Waterford, whose son Marine Cpl. Gladys Rivera, right, of Waterford, mother of U. ![]()
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