With more than 700 dead during WW II, Memorial Day 1946 was somber

With more than 700 dead during WW II, Memorial Day 1946 was somber

Rochester’s Memorial Day services on May 30, 1946, were even more somber than usual. It was the first Memorial Day after the end of World War II. Unofficial totals published in the Post-Bulletin showed that at last count, 731 men and women from the area had been killed in service during the war. Another two dozen were still missing in action and presumed dead. “These lists do not claim to be complete,” the newspaper said. This Memorial Day of 19…