An Army Special Forces commando who grew up in Lake Zurich and was killed by mortar hearth in 2004 might be honored Saturday in Wauconda.
A ceremony might be held at 10 a.m. in Memorial Park, 309 S. Major St., for Main Paul R. Syverson III, who served within the opening days of the conflict in Afghanistan and noticed the defeat of the Taliban.
Syverson’s household and members of the Special Forces might be available as Island Lake Veterans of Overseas Wars Submit 2486 is being renamed in his honor.
The title change is being executed with the consolidation of Submit 2486 with Lake Zurich VFW Submit 11020, in keeping with Mike Peck, previous commander and former superintendent of the Veterans Help Fee of Lake County.
“The membership was robust; that is why we wished to maintain the publish alive,” Peck mentioned. The Lake Zurich VFW constitution has been closed.
Submit 2486 doesn’t have an official headquarters, and the 2 organizations have been assembly at Wauconda American Legion Submit 911, 515 S. Major St., simply south of Group Park.
Peck hopes renaming the publish in Syverson’s honor will assist appeal to youthful, extra lively members.
Syverson grew up in Lake Zurich and attended Hersey Excessive College in Arlington Heights, the place he was a member of the 1987 state champion soccer staff. He attended Virginia Navy Institute.
When CIA agent Johnny “Mike” Spann was killed in an Afghanistan jail rebellion, Syverson was one of many Special Forces commandos despatched in to retrieve his physique and curtail the extraordinary combating, in keeping with his obituary.
He was one in every of 5 troopers injured within the November 2001 rebellion by a misguided U.S. bomb, and earned a Purple Coronary heart.
Syverson, who served with fifth Special Forces Group, was transferred to Iraq. He was killed by mortar hearth June 16, 2004, at a U.S. base north of Baghdad the place he stopped to purchase tools for fellow troopers from the fifth Special Forces Group primarily based at Fort Campbell, in keeping with the obituary. He was 32.
be distinctive within the it will likely be held subsequent to the Heroes of Freedom Memorial close to Route 176 and Major Road, which was devoted in 2015.
It contains a wall itemizing the names of the individuals killed within the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist assaults and a beam from one of many fallen World Commerce Heart buildings.
