Lance Cpl. Patrick R. Adle served a second stint in Iraq so another married officer could stay home, according to an official at Fallston High School, where Adle graduated.
He gave his life there three years ago, said Jim O?Toole, the school?s cooperative work experience coordinator and chairman of an organization created to honor the 30-year-old Adle.
Adle will be among six recognized at the school?s Ring of Honor ceremony tonight, where school, county and state officials willattend to induct them into the school?s new Hall of Fame, earned through their contributions to their community and country.
“It recognizes people who have given extreme commitment to the school, the community, the county or the nation,” O?Toole said.
Adle; Cpl. Jennifer M. Parcell, who also died in Iraq; and Assistant Fire Chief William “Skip” Strong of the Bel Air Fire Company, who died while helping victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, will be awarded posthumous plaques.
Three others will be honored: Sonny Lauer, the school?s former booster club president; Frank A. Stultz, the school?s founding principal; and David Wren, who was previously honored as volunteer of the decade for attending and manning the clock at every home football game since his freshman year.
Fire trucks will raise their ladders to hang a giant American flag while military jets fly overhead to initiate the ceremony, O?Toole said.
Fallston?s inaugural inductees will have a brick laid in their name around a new flagpole and its surrounding garden and benches.
The ceremony will be an annual event, and candidates must be five years removed from the school and work in the community, O?Toole said.
Aberdeen High School also has a Hall of Fame, and the county Board of Education has an educator Hall of Fame, county schools spokesman Don Morrison said.
“It?s one of the things we encouraged to schools,” Morrison said. “It?s a way to bring the generations together.”
