The United States Official National EMS Memorial Service
Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service of the United States of America.
On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, and 5,000 participants decorated the graves of the 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried there.
Ambulances and fire trucks lined the town of Middletown for the young man who so gallantly waited to become one of them. He worked hard from the age of 12 to work at his calling, that of a rescuer. His final action as an EMT in this town was a CPR call. The person survived his attack. What a way for a person who loved rescue work to say good-bye.
William R. Lawton, 18, Killingworth, Connecticut was killed when the ambulance he was driving was involved in a fiery head-on collision on September 2, 1989. The young EMT was part of a transport team that was returning a patient from a dialysis treatment when a pick-up truck rounded a curve on the wrong side of the road and into the path of the Hunter’s Ambulance. Another team member was killed and a third was critically wounded.
ill was an employee of Hunters Ambulance Service as an EMT. He was a volunteer with Killingworth Ambulance as well as with Killingworth Volunteer Fire Company and Rescue. He was preparing himself to become a professional paramedic and firefighter.
Honored 2003