City of Brandon celebrates Memorial Day

Oley American Legion hosts Memorial Day Parade, 21-gun salute at 7 cemeteries

Oley American Legion saluted veterans during a Memorial Day Parade and 21-gun salute at 7 cemeteries on May 29.

American Legion celebrates Memorial Day

VALLEY — Some local men who died in the Vietnam War were remembered by name in Monday’s annual Memorial Day program at Veterans’ Memorial Park.Sammy Newton, the adjutant for American Legion Post 67, talked about Dean Monroe and Billy Gross, two men he knew from the local area who died in Vietnam, and former Valley Mayor Arnold Leak discussed Lewis Callaway, another young man from the local area who served in Vietnam but did not make it back home…

Veterans memorial dedicated at East Bend American Legion

EAST BEND — Ahead of Memorial Day a new veterans memorial was dedicated at the Joseph E. Martin Jr. American Legion Post 336 in East Bend on Sunday.Wayne Johnson shared a brief history of the post which was considered officially established in the year 1947.“A significant date in our post was September 6, 1946, the [American Legion year] 1947 had just begun two months earlier. Thirty-one veterans of WWII and WWI paid their dues of three bucks an…

Gold Star Garden Memorial Day Celebration 2022

The 10-year anniversary and Memorial Day celebration of the Gold Star Memorial Garden honored George Wood, the only WWI Black York fatality.

Memorial Day celebrated in St. Marys

Memorial Day was celebrated in St. Marys on Monday. This year's program included a tribute to the late General Edward C. Meyer.

Madison celebrates Memorial Day with Civil War history

MADISON, Wis. — The history of the Civil War runs deep in Madison — Camp Randall, which now hosts Big Ten football, used to be a Civil War camp.And just a few blocks away, at the Civil War gravesites at Forest Hill Cemetery, the descendants of those soldiers remembered their ancestors’ cause in an annual Memorial Day ceremony.“Memorial Day, from the Civil War point, it saved the nation to be the nation we are today,” said Tom Brodd of the Sons o…