2010 Memorial Day

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A Special Supplement • May 28, 2010

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Area Memorial Day Services Apple Valley Ceremony to remember and honor men and women who have died in service to their country will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, May 31 at Veterans Park behind Post 1776 Club, 14521 Granada Drive, Apple Valley.

The event will include units from the Legion, Sons of the American Legion, Legion Auxiliary, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Civil Air Patrol and music by the Scott Highlands Middle School band.

Special presentation will be made by

the 322nd Maintenance Company.

All citizens are welcome to participate.

Bring your family, friends and lawn chairs Participants form up at the park at 10:45 a.m.

Coffee, juice, and donuts served to all who participate in the ceremony at 10 a.m.

For more information, contact Lloyd Cybart at (651) 332-2352 or webmaster@post1776.com. The phone number for the American Legion Apple Valley Post 1776 is (952) 431-1776.

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Farmington The Farmington VFW and American Legion will observe Memorial Day: • On Sunday, May 30, at noon at Farmington Lutheran Cemetery and at 2:30 p.m. at Castle Rock Valley Cemetery • On Monday, May 31, at 10 a.m. at Corinthian and St. Micheal’s cemeteries.

Each observance will include a 21-gun salute to miliPhoto by Tad Johnson tary heroes. Monday’s obserApple Valley Boy Scout Troops and Cub Scout Packs will vance will include the Boy participate in the Apple Valley Memorial Day ceremony Scouts and groups will meet first at the American Legion again in 2010. and march to the cemeteries.

Burnsville

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Memorial Day Ceremony in Bi-Centennial Park at the corner of Nicollet and 130th in Burnsville at 9:30 a.m. Mayor Elizabeth Kautz, Blue Star Moms, Sweet Sioux Garden Club, Valley Composite Squadron Minnesota Wing Civil Air Patrol, Blue Star Moms and Greig Sylvester with Sioux Trail ensemble will participate.

A Memorial Day observance will be held at the Lakeville Veterans Memorial in Aronson Park, 8250 202nd St. W. Following several area cemetery visits, the VFW color guard and the high school band will arrive at Aronson Park about 12:30 p.m. May 31.

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Refreshments following ceremony in City Hall.

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There will be a 5-10 minute induction of VFW officers, followed by a prayer, songs played by the bands, taps and speeches by elected officials. The event will last less than 30 minutes.

For more information, contact VFW 201 Commander Arnold Zach at (651) 442-0821.

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2010 Memorial Day services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, May 31 at Acacia Park Cemetery, Photo by Rick Orndorf 2151 Pilot Knob Road, The 2010 Memorial Day service in Burnsville will be held in Mendota Heights. The Bi-Centennial Park as it was in 2009. cemetery can be reached at (651) 452-1555.

After the ceremony, the group will visit five area cemeteries to honor veterans: Rosemount • St. Joseph - 10 a.m.

At the Rosemount Veterans Memorial • Rosemount - 10:15 a.m. in Central Park at 2893 145th St. W., Rose• Lebanon - 10:30 a.m. mount, the American Legion Post 65, VFW • Rich Valley - 10:45 a.m.

Post 9433 and Vietnam Veterans of Amer• Pine Bend - 11:05 a.m. ica Chapter 492 will host a Memorial Day A free lunch will be served at the RoseCeremony at 8:45 am. Monday, May 31. mount American Legion following the visits.

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Who are Currently Serving or Have Served

MICHAEL BEGGS U.S. MARINE CORPS APPLE VALLEY

PHILLIP BERG U.S. ARMY BURNSVILLE

LANCE CPL. JONATHAN BOESE U.S. MARINE CORPS APPLE VALLEY

CLIFFORD J. BRANIGAN U.S. ARMY MINNEAPOLIS

SGT. DYLAN BRENNER U.S. ARMY BURNSVILLE

TONY CAPONI U.S. ARMY EAGAN

PFC JOSHUA CUMMINGS U.S. ARMY LAKEVILLE

JAMES A. DARE U.S. NAVY EAGAN

HENRY G. DOTZLER, SMSGT U.S. AIR FORCE LAKEVILLE

SPC. ANDREW DUGGAN ARMY NATIONAL GUARD BURNSVILLE

SPC. WILLIAM DUGGAN U.S. ARMY BURNSVILLE

WILLIAM DURBIN U.S. ARMY ROSEMOUNT

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GREGORY FAIRCHILD U.S. NAVY EAGAN

GORDON FALES U.S. NAVY LAKEVILLE

S. GREENE U.S. MARINE CORPS ROSEMOUNT

CAPT. DENNIS GRINDE U.S. ARMY EAGAN

COL. JOHN P. GRITZ U.S. ARMY EAGAN

JENNIFER M. HALL U.S. ARMY ROSEMOUNT

RELLAN HASTINGS U.S. AIR FORCE LAKEVILLE

OTTO HIRSCHOFF U.S. ARMY LAKEVILLE

JEFF HOOVER U.S. ARMY LAKEVILLE

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HARRY MOE U.S. AIR FORCE LAKEVILLE

J. MOONEY U.S. NAVY FARMINGTON

SGT. MICHAEL PALM U.S. ARMY LAKEVILLE

SFC MATTHEW C. PRICE U.S. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD FARMINGTON

RICHARD B. SMITH U.S. MARINE CORPS LAKEVILLE

SFC RICHARD RIVERA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD - RED BULLS ROSEMOUNT

BOB ROCKWOOD U.S. NAVY LAKEVILLE

SGT. CHRISTOPHER M. SCHOTT U.S. MARINE CORPS ROSEMOUNT

MICHAEL SCHUHWERCK U.S. ARMY FARMINGTON

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ANTHONY SERVATI U.S. ARMY LAKEVILLE

RAYMOND SERVATI U.S. ARMY LAKEVILLE

CMDR. KEN TITCOMB U.S. NAVY RESERVES LAKEVILLE

CAPT. JEREMY LEE TRI U.S. ARMY RESERVE BURNSVILLE

CAPT. EARL R. WILSON JR. U.S. NAVY APPLE VALLEY

DUSTIN WINN U.S. MARINE CORPS LAKEVILLE

MAJ. LARRY WOODS U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVES EAGAN

STEVEN R. WOTCZAK U.S. NAVY ROSEMOUNT

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Memorial Day has a long history of remembrance

by Howard Lestrud THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS

The history of Memorial Day goes back many generations, in fact as far back as the Civil War. Memorial Day was first enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War).

Memorial Day was then expanded to honor veterans of all wars.

One may find a history of Memorial Day, formerly called Decoration Day, at Wikipedia: http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day.

Memorial Day comes late this year, being observed Monday, May 31.

The traditional Memorial Day is May 30. The observance, now scheduled the last Monday in May, actually falls on Monday, May 30 next year, 2011.

Following are excerpts from the Wikipedia siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s information on Memorial Day: Following the end of the Civil War, many communities set aside a day to mark the end of the war or as a memorial to those who had died. Some of the places creating an early memorial day include Sharpsburg,

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Md., located near Antietam Battlefield; Charleston, S.C.; Boalsburg, Pa.; Petersburg, Va.; Carbondale, Ill.; Columbus, Miss.; many communities in Vermont; and some two dozen other cities and towns.

Observances coalesced around Decoration Day, honoring the Union dead, and the several Confederate Memorial Days. According to professor David Blight of the Yale University history department, the first memorial day was observed by formerly enslaved black people at the Washington Race Course (today the location of Hampton Park) in Charleston, S.C. The race course had been used as a temporary Confederate prison camp in 1865 as well as a mass grave for Union soldiers who died there. Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, formerly enslaved people exhumed the bodies from the

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On June 28, 1968, the U.S. Congress passed the Uniform Holidays Bill, which moved three holidays from their traditional dates to a specified Monday in order to create a convenient three-day weekend. The holidays included Washingtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthday, now celebrated as Presidentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Day; Veterans Day and Memorial Day. The change moved Memorial Day from its traditional May 30 date to the last Monday in May. The law took effect at the federal level in 1971.

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as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; organization, Logan issued a proclamation that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Decoration Dayâ&#x20AC;? be observed nationwide. It was observed for the first time on May 30 of the same year; the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of a battle.

The tombs of fallen Union soldiers were decorated in remembrance.

The alternative name of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Memorial Dayâ&#x20AC;? was first used in 1882. It did not become more common until after World War II, and was not declared the official name by federal law until 1967.

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mass grave and reinterred them properly with individual graves. They built a fence around the graveyard with an entry arch and declared it a Union graveyard.

The work was completed in only 10 days.

On May 1, 1865, the Charleston newspaper reported that a crowd of up to 10,000, mainly black residents, including 2,800 children, processed to the location for a celebration which included sermons, singing, and a picnic on the grounds, thereby creating the first Decoration Day. The first observance was in Waterloo, N.Y., on May 5, 1866, and each year thereafter. The friendship between Gen. John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, and Gen. John A. Logan, who helped bring attention to the event nationwide, was likely a factor in the holidayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growth. On May 5, 1868, in his capacity