# @EastOrangeRCA on Facebook

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- **Original URL:** https://www.facebook.com/1386922296948975/posts/1156958476612026
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- **Posted:** 2025-11-12T14:56:44.000+00:00

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Thank you to everyone that spent their Veterans Day with us at City Hall to honor our local heroes for their service to our nation! 🫡🇺🇸

Special thanks are in order for:

⭐ Mayor Ted R. Green and the East Orange City Council
⭐ Keynote Speaker Petty Officer Raheem A. Lawrence and his wife Eliza Lawrence for singing The Star Spangled Banner
⭐ Guest Speaker Dr. Margaret Stevens (author and Essex CC History Professor)
⭐ Minister Marketa S. Blount for the Invocation & Benediction
⭐ The veterans of Lewis Lackland VFW Post 7923 for their Moments of Reflection
⭐ East Orange Junior Police Explorers Post 541 for the Pledge of Allegiance and Wreath Laying
⭐ And Director J. Jamal Pearson and the entire #EORCA staff that contributed to the event 

AWARD HONOREES
🏆 Earl Williams Award (Most Active City Resident Veteran): ERNEST R. COOKE
🏆 Stanley E. Costley Award (Highest Ranking City Veteran, Mayor's Selection): EOPD CPT. REGINALD BUTTS
🏆 Norman N. Abraham Awards (Longest Living Defenders of Freedom): SGT. RONALD T. RIDDICK (Ret., Army); EDWARD N. PETERSON (Ret., Army), MORRIS H. TURNER, JR. (Ret., Air Force); ALLEN WISE, JR. (Ret., Air Force)

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