An Army Special Forces commando who grew up in Lake Zurich and was killed by mortar fireplace in 2004 shall be honored Saturday in Wauconda.
A ceremony shall be held at 10 a.m. in Memorial Park, 309 S. Predominant St., for Main Paul R. Syverson III, who served within the opening days of the battle in Afghanistan and noticed the defeat of the Taliban.
Syverson’s household and members of the Special Forces shall be readily available as Island Lake Veterans of Overseas Wars Put up 2486 is being renamed in his honor.
The title change is being achieved with the consolidation of Put up 2486 with Lake Zurich VFW Put up 11020, in response to Mike Peck, previous commander and former superintendent of the Veterans Help Fee of Lake County.
“The membership was sturdy; that is why we needed to maintain the put up alive,” Peck mentioned. The Lake Zurich VFW constitution has been closed.
Put up 2486 doesn’t have an official headquarters, and the 2 organizations have been assembly at Wauconda American Legion Put up 911, 515 S. Predominant St., simply south of Neighborhood Park.
Peck hopes renaming the put up 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 extreme preventing, in response to his obituary.
He was considered one 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 fireplace June 16, 2004, at a U.S. base north of Baghdad the place he stopped to purchase gear for fellow troopers from the fifth Special Forces Group primarily based at Fort Campbell, in response to the obituary. He was 32.
Saturday’s ceremony shall be distinctive within the will probably be held subsequent to the Heroes of Freedom Memorial close to Route 176 and Predominant Road, which was devoted in 2015, Peck mentioned.
It contains a wall itemizing the names of the folks killed within the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist assaults and a beam from one of many fallen World Commerce Heart buildings.
