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The American Legion

The Oakland Memorial Day parade and ceremonies were co-sponsored by the Public Events Committee and The American Legion Post. Speakers in the pictorial setting of Veteran’s Park soon provided residents with solemn reminders of the day’s purpose, and in so doing inducted another generation into the responsibility of honoring those […]


Memorial Day

“Every year–in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life–there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death. ”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civil War Veteran

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