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Show Memorial Day Fittingly Observed In observance of Memorial day, Monday, Am. Fork joined the entire en-tire nation in pausing for the day from the pursuit of normal duties. Hundreds of former residents and visitors thronged the city to join with local citizens In paying respect to our dead. The local cemetery was a spot of beauty during the day, beautiful flowers of every variety covering the graves in which our loved ones sleep. The American Legion and Auxiliary Auxil-iary placed an American flag and a wTeath on each dead soldier's I grave early Monday morning. Throughout the United States flowers and flags covered the graves of men who died for America-Wherever America-Wherever these men lie, whether in cemeteries at home or in fields of the dead overseas, flowers and flags were placed by reverent hands on the sod beneath which they rest. Decoration day was first observed ob-served in 1868 by order of General i John A. Logan, then commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, as ' a day for the decoration of graves of Federal soldiers who lost their lives in the war between the states. The day has taken a fuller significance sig-nificance with the years and is now a day for the remembrance of all dead.' o |