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Memorial Day
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Post 27, Wiesbaden
Top: Memorial Day Ceremony at Lorraine American Cemetery in St. Avold, France. Middle: Members of Post 27 at the Recruiting and Buddy Poppy Drive. Bottom: Comrade Ashton leading the JROTC at the USAG Wiesbaden Retreat Ceremony.
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Post 10506 Berlin celebrated its Memorial Day with the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts at the Waldfriedhof Dahlem Berlin. In attendance was an Attaché Officer from the British Embassy and an Air Force Attaché Officer from the American Embassy Berlin. We had 20 members from the post in attendence and members from the Last Outpost Masonic Lodge Berlin. It was an honor to do the ceremony at the grave of one of our former Life members of the post, Robert Jumper.
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Memorial Day
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Post 605 members paid tribute to fallen comrades during official Memorial Day services and poppy drives throughout France and the United Kingdom. With its members spanning multiple European countries and North America, Post 605 comrades paid tribute wherever they were to remember those who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms of today.
Meuse Argonne Charles Diaz, Assistant Superintendent at Meuse Argonne, sent the following message. He is a lifelong member of both the VFW and American Legion. We had asked him to lay the wreaths on the graves of soldiers he had a special connection with. "The wreath for the Veterans of Foreign Wars was laid at the grave of Pvt. Kenneth Evans. I chose Pvt. Kenneth Evans because I met his family who came from the San Francisco area in California to visit their Great Uncle. It was the first time in 104 years since his death that anyone from the family had come to visit Pvt. Evans." (Right)
