A group of girls show their patriotic red, white and blue costumes in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1904. One girl holds a flag of the United States for a Memorial Day honor guard. Five-year-old Imogene Laura Stone, a daughter of a World War I veteran, sits on President Franklin D. ...
Yet, research shows that the annual Memorial Day parade in Rochester, Wisconsin is a year older than the one in Doylestown. Regardless of the true origins of Memorial Day in the United States, which are murky enough to seem likely to remain a mystery, the point of it remain the same ...
50 YEARS AND MARCHING ON PARADE FANS FLOCK TO THE MONONA MEMORIAL DAY PARADE.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)Simms, Patricia
Each Memorial Day we honor those who have served and fallen. Those who have gone before us to take the stand and protect our freedom. And this Memorial Day we salute the sacrifices our veterans have made in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the first state veterans cemetery. ...
[5]. The designs were displayed at an airport hangar at Andrews Air Force Base for the selection committee, in rows covering more than 35,000 square feet (3,300 m2) of floor space. Here's what Memorial Day means in the words of local veterans: Robert Brandt, of Harrisburg, was in ...
“hospital”–yes, there was one in Westerbork. Then, the next day, he told me that she had died. He did not then tell me that she had committed suicide. That came out many years after the war, when I must have been about 16 or 17 years old. Affected: I missed her a lot, ...
[...]and reconciliation processes through a “palava hut” system, the establishment of a reparations trust fund, the observanceofanational memorialandunification day and the protection and promotion of the rights of women and children.
I told him that we were from Wisconsin. "Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, cheese heads, and I will tell you a story." Note: James Bradley just happened to be in Washington, D.C., to speak at the Memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good...
He attended the University of Wisconsin and Yale University, but left the latter in his junior year. After working for two years in a New York stock brokerage, North worked for the Ringling Brothers' Real Estate Companies and for the circus during the summers. He returned to the brokerage ...
Madison Wisconsin Police Department Chief Noble Wray Police Department 211 S. Carroll St. Madison, WI 53709 CHIEF'S OFFICE: (608) 266-4022 The department’s K9 teams provide a great service to the community, tracking missing persons, apprehending suspects and locating evidence. They allow patrol...