TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds if not thousands of people are expected at Saturday’s memorial service in Tacoma for Army Gen. John Shalikashvili (SHAL’-ee-kash-VEE’-lee), the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who died July 23.
I Corps spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield says Shalikashvili, who had retired in 1998 near Joint Base Lewis-McChord, had many friends in the community as well as the military.
A 90-minute service is scheduled at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center.
Shalikashvili died at Madigan Army Medical Center of complications of a stroke. He was 75. He’ll be buried Oct. 7 at Arlington National Cemetery.
The native of Poland was the first foreign-born top leader in the Pentagon. He served the Clinton administration from 1993-to-1997.
