‘Let us remember that they lived’

‘Let us remember that they lived’

As the nation honored its war dead on Monday, the guest speaker at Apalachicola’s annual Memorial Day ceremony reminded the audience to remember their lives, along with their deaths. “Just as with the Gold Star families of the past, we say to the Gold Star families of our modern wars that your loss is our loss. The warriors you loved and lost are part of this unbroken chain of valor,” said Peter “Pipes” Coffman, the retired historian from Tyndal…