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Honoring the fallen

By Donald P. Vincent - Adjutant/Historian, James E. Coffey Post 3, American Legion, Nashua | Dec 9, 2018

I would like to thank the Nashua Telegraph and Dean Shalhoup for the excellent article in the Dec. 3, 2018, issue about the Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies. It is vitally important that we publicize what the veterans organizations in the city do to honor our fallen comrades in arms. The American Legion, VFW and DAV participate in this ceremony every year, as well as the Memorial Day and Veterans Day parades.

Before the two annual parades at 8 a.m. in the morning, they also participate in wreath laying ceremonies at the local veterans memorials and cemeteries. These ceremonies are not well known, are sparsely attended and publicized, but are a very important part of the annual Memorial Day and Veterans Day tributes to those who fought for our countries freedom. Information about which memorials and/or cemeteries will be visited in the morning can be found in the “general orders” for the parades that is submitted to the Telegraph prior to the parade day by the mayors “Veterans’ Parade Committee.”

I would also like to recognize the Nashua Elks and the Boy Scouts for their outstanding work of placing American flags at the grave markers of fallen veterans at our local cemeteries on Memorial Day and Veterans Day.

Thanks again Telegraph. Keep up the good work.

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