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About 60 people gathered at Jackson-Silver Legion Post 68 in Locke Mills Sunday for a Veterans' Day observance. The Mahoosuc Community Band played patriotic songs and Post Commander Wayne Hakala gave the address. After the observance, a firing squad fired a salute outside as Legion member Al Lake prepared to dispose of hundred of old flags in the proper manner - by burning them.

The following Correspondence was received by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund for the $1525.00 donation made on behalf of the B Co. 1/22nd 4th Infantry Vietnam Veterans donation toward the building of "The Education Center at the Wall".

On June 6, 2016, Dennis Otte (2nd Platoon-) Jun 66-Jun 67) as a Nebraska resident, was part of an Honor Flight to Washington DC . The attached link will tell you more about this wonderful opportunity that Dennis and 500 others veterans had.

www.patrioticproductions.org/vietnam-combat-veterans-flight.html

The following is an email from Jerry Benson regarding a part of the Cadillac, Michigan Memorial Day Parade and services. Jerry has been a major supporter for their local Memorial Day events for many years and it continues to grow each year.

This is a picture of Fred Baker who read names of Killed in Action during WW II in the Cadillac area. Fred is 95 years old and is wearing his original uniform. He was a member of the Flying Tigers in China and Burma. What a honor to meet and spend time with him.

Our High School football stadium is named Veterans Memorial Stadium and was built 60 years ago. There is plaques with the names of area Veterans who were killed in action during WW I, WW II, Korea, and Vietnam. There was 143 names read from those plaques.

Hope you all enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend,

Jerry Benson

Vietnam Soldier saved from the dead honors his fellow Veterans as seen on CBS News

www.cbsnews.com/news/how-a-vietnam-soldier-came-back-from-the-dead-to-honor-fellow-veterans/

Veterans park progress off to a fast start
By Gabrielle Martin
CADILLAC — Chilly weather, clouds and rain didn't stop over 50 veterans and community members from coming together to help make progress on the new veterans park. Work on the park, located off of South 41 Road, is off to a great start, said Roger Bandeen, president of Veterans Serving Veterans, the group heading the project.
"We're just blown away by the people coming out of the woodwork to help veterans in the Cadillac area," said Bandeen at a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday morning. The Veterans Serving Veterans Park will include a small lake, baseball and Frisbee fields, a Memorial Circle, guest cabins, a caretaker's home, log cabin chapel, pavilion overlooking a field of wild flowers and possibly an equestrian center. Over $50,000 in products and services have already been donated to the project, including the supplies for a large pole barn with office space. While England Pole Buildings in Marion and Dutchman Tree Farms have made large donations, the veterans park project even has donations coming from outside the state. Central States Manufacturing in Michigan City, Indiana, donated the steel posts for the pole barn on the condition that their employees can work side-by-side with the veterans to build the pole barn. "When we tackle projects, we want to make it personal," said Eric Navarro, business development manager for the company. Jeanne Whitney was one of the veterans present at the groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday. "It's nice to be acknowledged and honored," she said. "I think it's really nice of everybody to do something like this."

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