Memorial service for retired Maj. Gen. Warren L. Freeman will be at the DCNG Armory at 6 p.m. June 18

A funeral service for the former D.C. Commanding General will be the following day on 19 June

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Former D.C. National Guard Commanding General Maj. Gen. Warren L. Freeman dies at age 66. Memorial Service, DC Armory, June 18 at 6pm

WASHINGTON, DC (06/10/2014)(readMedia)-- The District of Columbia National Guard will hold a memorial service for retired Maj. Gen. Warren L. Freeman, former Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard, at the D.C. National Guard Armory at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 18.

When: Wednesday, June 18th, 6 p.m.

Where: D.C. National Guard Armory - 2001 E. Capitol St SE, Washington, D.C. 20003

A funeral service is ccheduled for the following day:

When: Thursday, June 19, 11 a.m. (Visitation at 10 a.m.)

Where: Israel Baptist Church, 1251 Saratoga Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. 20018

Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery on a date to be determined.

Freeman served as commanding general of the D.C. Guard from 1995 to 2003. He died at his home in Maryland, May 17. He was 66.

Born in Jackson, Ga. and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, the general's military career spanned three decades -- with a majority of it in the service of the D.C. Guard.

Freeman was a colonel in the D.C. Army Guard when he was appointed commanding general by then Pres. Bill Clinton. After retiring from the Guard, he served from 2003 to 2012 as commandant of the Forestville Military Academy, the first public military school in Maryland.

The general was in command during the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon, which sent D.C. Air National Guard F-16 fighters from the 113th Wing scrambling moments after the Pentagon was hit by a commercial jet liner. D.C Army Guard helicopters also took flight to assist first responders with medical support at the Pentagon.

Freeman served on the board of directors for the Boy Scouts of America and the Black United Fund. He is a member of the U.S. Army War College Alumni Association, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Tuskegee Airmen, Association and Buffalo Soldiers Association. He lived in Gambrills Maryland with his wife, Barbara Ann Lynch-Freeman.