Every once in a while, I have several short items that are neither long enough for a column by themselves nor easily grouped together either. This week is such a week, so here are several things I’ve noticed recently.
First of all, I fly the American flag at my house. I don’t put it out every day, but I do fly the flag on days designated by the United States Flag Code. Before I go any further, I’ll point out that the provisions of the Flag Code are suggestions and not laws for which one can be arrested for violating a fact that frankly surprised me when I found it out. Still, I follow it voluntarily where applicable. Why? I like to see the American flag in the breeze on those days.
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Western Maine trails received $87,000 in grants with $30,000 granted to The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust to improve wayfaring in the trust’s 36 miles of trails. Trailhead signs and trail markers will be improved and an in-town trail between Rangeley’s Lakeside Park and the Rangeley Public Library will be constructed.
“Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust has conserved more than 14,000 acres in the region for public access and the wayfinding system will be critical to keeping access safe and educational,” David Miller, executive director of The Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust, said.
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s office released a report the first week of July that included several first-hand accounts of the Sept. 16, 2019, LEAP Inc. building explosion in Farmington. Accounts from firefighters confirmed that there was no smell of propane outside or inside of the building. While no propane was detected around the tank, the measurement readings in the basement w
Remembering Pearl Harbor
To the editor:
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, which is annually on Dec. 7, commemorates the attack on Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, during World War II. Many American service men and women lost their lives or were injured on Dec. 7, 1941. Many associations, especially those linked with Pearl Harbor survivors or those who died from the attack, participate in special services to commemorate the event. Memorial services are held at venues such as the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.
Today (Dec. 7) I attended the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony at the Greater Pine Island Veterans of Foreign War Post 4353 located on Stringfellow Road in St. James City as I have done in Florida since my father passed away in 2005. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps on Dec. 8, 1941, and served our country until returning home from the Pacific Far East in 1946. My wife’s father also served in the U.S. Army during the war. While they were not at Pearl Harbor tha
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Gordon Webber, commander of James A. McKechnie Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10881, thanked those who came.
“This is something I need to do,” he said. “If we forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” Webber quoted respectively from Presidents Reagan and Kennedy.
Webber also read an account of Marine Private Giles McCoy, stationed on the naval cruiser USS Indianapolis at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco Bay in 1945. McCoy’s actions and those of the rest of the crew would lead directly to the final blows against the Japanese Empire.