MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE

BELOW...CLIFF MERRICK, AMERICAN LEGION ADJUTANT

  ABOVE, LOWELL SCHROEDER, VFW CHAPLAIN

BELOW, KENT CRAWFORD, DIRECTING THE MCHS BAND

ABOVE, GINA LAUGHLIN, VFW AULILIARY PRESIDENT

ABOVE, ANGIE OSTERKAMP, PAST 2ND DIST. VFW AUX. PRESIDENT.

ABOVE, SCOTT HANSEN, MAJOR IN THE IOWA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, GIVING THE MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS.

ROGER SCHNOOR, VFW COMMANDER, READING LIST OF PAST YEAR DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE LEGION AND THE  VFW.

JOHN SCHMIDT, LEGION CHAPLAIN, WITH THE BENEDICTION

BELOW PHOTOS TAKEN AT MT. HOPE CEMETERY.

2ND DIST. VFW VICE-COMMANDER TOM WATTERS RAISING THE FLAG.

VFW AND LEGION CEREMONIAL RIFLE SQUAD...ROBERT LAUGHLIN, JERRY WEIS AND
SHANE MERRICK.

THERE WERE ALL AGES AT THE CEMETERY.....MOSTLY SENIORS...SOME
YOUNG FAMILIES...BOY SCOUTS AND ABOVE, JIM RANKIN OF MAQUOKETA, AGE 91.   HE SERVED IN WORLD WAR II AS A BOMBADIER IN A B-29 AND
WAS IN THE WAR FROM 1941 UNTIL IT ENDED.

A BEAUTIFUL LATE MORNING FOR MAQUOKETA'S ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM AT THE MAQUOKETA MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM AND
AT MT. HOPE CEMETERY.

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