Local Memorial Day Ceremony Honors Veterans

SEELEY LAKE - Seeley Lake honored its veterans this Memorial Day at a ceremony that included prayers and a demonstration of the 13 folds of the U.S. flag was accompanied by an explanation for each fold.

Barbara Knopp, who lead the ceremony, gave a brief history of Memorial Day's origins.

"The observance of this day was born in 1863 when Confederate women were cleaning their soldiers graves and noticed how badly the Union soldiers graves were overgrown with weeds and mud," she told the crowd.

The women realized that all the soldiers were cherished loved ones of their own families and communitie...

 

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