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Independence, MO —
The weather conditions appear favorable for Tuesday evening’s Harry S. Truman Public Service Award presentation on the steps of the Truman Library.
The 2012 award will honor veterans who have served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The public is invited to the ceremony and reception at 500 W. U.S. 24, with a reception in the East Atrium immediately following the ceremony. In case of bad weather, the ceremony will take place in the library’s auditorium, but Tuesday’s forecast calls for clear skies and temperatures in the 60s.
The ceremony starts at 7 p.m. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets for lawn seating.
The public service and sacrifices of the members of the United States armed forces during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were important in the selection of a representative group instead of an individual for this year’s award, according to the city of Independence.
Former U.S. House Rep. Ike Skelton, also the former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is scheduled to attend, as well as several ranking officers from their respective branches of the service. Earlier on Tuesday, Skelton will separately receive the 2012 Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award in downtown Kansas City. He also received the Public Service Award in 2006.
Tuesday marks the actual date of the 128th anniversary of Truman’s birth in Lamar, Mo., on May 8, 1884.
Missouri state and Jackson County offices, as well as Independence City Hall, are all closed on Tuesday.
The Public Service Award is given annually to an outstanding public servant who best typifies and possesses the qualities of dedication, industry, ability, honesty and integrity that distinguished Truman in his years of public service. The Harry S. Truman Public Service Award Commission, currently chaired by Mayor Don Reimal, makes the selection each year.
While this marks the first time in award’s nearly 40-year history that it has gone to a group of people, the award has gone to several couples in past years. In 1983, Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumously) received the award. In 1994, Millard and Linda Fuller, co-founders of Habitat for Humanity International, received the award.
In 2001, former Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash in 2000, posthumously received the award, along with his wife, Jean, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill Mel’s seat.
Henry Kissinger, U.S. secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, received the first Public Service Award in 1974. No award was given in 1991.
The weather conditions appear favorable for Tuesday evening’s Harry S. Truman Public Service Award presentation on the steps of the Truman Library.
The 2012 award will honor veterans who have served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The public is invited to the ceremony and reception at 500 W. U.S. 24, with a reception in the East Atrium immediately following the ceremony. In case of bad weather, the ceremony will take place in the library’s auditorium, but Tuesday’s forecast calls for clear skies and temperatures in the 60s.
The ceremony starts at 7 p.m. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs or blankets for lawn seating.
The public service and sacrifices of the members of the United States armed forces during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were important in the selection of a representative group instead of an individual for this year’s award, according to the city of Independence.
Former U.S. House Rep. Ike Skelton, also the former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is scheduled to attend, as well as several ranking officers from their respective branches of the service. Earlier on Tuesday, Skelton will separately receive the 2012 Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award in downtown Kansas City. He also received the Public Service Award in 2006.
Tuesday marks the actual date of the 128th anniversary of Truman’s birth in Lamar, Mo., on May 8, 1884.
Missouri state and Jackson County offices, as well as Independence City Hall, are all closed on Tuesday.
The Public Service Award is given annually to an outstanding public servant who best typifies and possesses the qualities of dedication, industry, ability, honesty and integrity that distinguished Truman in his years of public service. The Harry S. Truman Public Service Award Commission, currently chaired by Mayor Don Reimal, makes the selection each year.
While this marks the first time in award’s nearly 40-year history that it has gone to a group of people, the award has gone to several couples in past years. In 1983, Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King Jr. (posthumously) received the award. In 1994, Millard and Linda Fuller, co-founders of Habitat for Humanity International, received the award.
In 2001, former Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who died in a plane crash in 2000, posthumously received the award, along with his wife, Jean, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill Mel’s seat.
Henry Kissinger, U.S. secretary of state in the Nixon and Ford administrations, received the first Public Service Award in 1974. No award was given in 1991.
