bigsky
05-30-2016, 09:05 AM
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435993/memorial-day-remembering-sacrifices-ensured-american-freedom?utm_source=NR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=May30Cooke
We are still small town. There is a breakfast at the Legion. We have a parade at 9:30. We gather at the Vietnam Wall and all wars memorials at 11. The Legions and Marine corps league march and present colors. Some old planes fly over. Flags decorate the graves and fly by the dozens on Main Street. The motels snd restaurants put up the Gold Star families for free who come here from all over Montana.
The Legion wont let politicians in the parade, and, when they complain, I tell the politicians that they can stand by me, in an unobtrusive spot, near the viewing stand where the Gold Star families sit.
We stopped having the parade in the 1960s. In 2010 Len Albright of the American Legion approached me about the city sponsoring the renewal of the parade with a bit of cash, $2500, and would city employees work on the holiday to block off main street, unblock it, giving up their long weekend?
Annual since then. I'm putting on the tie and jacket now and off to stand in the rain. It almost always rains. And you know, that always seems appropriate.
We are still small town. There is a breakfast at the Legion. We have a parade at 9:30. We gather at the Vietnam Wall and all wars memorials at 11. The Legions and Marine corps league march and present colors. Some old planes fly over. Flags decorate the graves and fly by the dozens on Main Street. The motels snd restaurants put up the Gold Star families for free who come here from all over Montana.
The Legion wont let politicians in the parade, and, when they complain, I tell the politicians that they can stand by me, in an unobtrusive spot, near the viewing stand where the Gold Star families sit.
We stopped having the parade in the 1960s. In 2010 Len Albright of the American Legion approached me about the city sponsoring the renewal of the parade with a bit of cash, $2500, and would city employees work on the holiday to block off main street, unblock it, giving up their long weekend?
Annual since then. I'm putting on the tie and jacket now and off to stand in the rain. It almost always rains. And you know, that always seems appropriate.