Thursday, May 21, 2015 - Page 10

Memorial Day
Services
8 a.m.,
Mound City Cemetery
in Mound City, MO
8:45 a.m.,
Craig Cemetery
in Craig, MO
9:30 a.m.,
Fairfax City Park
in Fairfax, MO
10:15 a.m.,
Atchison County Memorial Building
in Rock Port, MO
11 a.m.,
St. Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery
west of Westboro, MO
11:45 a.m.,
Center Grove Cemetery
south of Westboro
12:30 p.m.,
Home Cemetery
in Tarkio

Decoration Day
By Rebecca French
Smith
Decoration Day was always a big deal in our house
when I was a child. It was
right up there with all of
the major holidays - Easter,
Christmas, Fourth of July.
Getting gussied up, packing
a picnic and flowers, and visiting the country cemetery

where six generations of my

family rested was the schedule for the day.
Memorial Day didnt
come into my vocabulary until I was older. Though some
began calling it such in the
1880s, the moniker wasnt
official until 1967. When it
began after the Civil War,
it was a day to decorate the
graves of those who died in
the war and to remember

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Today, Memorial Day has
evolved. We take time to enjoy the freedoms we have,
like heading to the lake (it
is the official beginning of
summer after all), barbecuing, or watching air shows
and parades.
Getting to the cemetery
is more elusive. I dont live
near that little country cemetery anymore, so I dont
get there as often. But all I
have to see at the local big
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our freedoms, according to
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In 2000, President Bill

Clinton signed into law the
National Moment of Remembrance Act. The Act
requires all Americans to
pause for a moment of silence at 3 p.m. local time on
Memorial Day to remember
those who have sacrificed in
defense of the freedoms all
Americans enjoy.
Barbecues, parades and
cemetery visits aside, just
remembering, perhaps that
is the ultimate tribute.

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time of war.
As I watch the jets and
antique aircraft buzz by
overhead during the Memorial Day parade, I think
of those who flew them for
their intended purpose and
how the experience in the
cockpits must have been for
them. For many years, I had
the honor of watching my
father-in-law ride a float in
the parade. He was a World
War II submarine veteran.
Remembering was important to him.

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