By Jeff Olsen
Reflections from memorial day 2017
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June 3, 2017
Parade Across Center Street Bridge
On Monday morning, they gathered in the parking lot next to the fire hall, a mostly aging group of veterans in their sixties and seventies with just a smattering of younger veterans from the more recent wars.
A few were in their late eighties like Bud Johnson, who rode in a special scooter because his legs are no longer made for walking.
What will happen when this latest aging group passes on?
The World War II and Korean War veterans are almost all dead, and the funerals for Vietnam veterans are now commonplace.
There will come a day when to even know a local veteran who fought somewhere fo...
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