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Buena Vista’s American Legion Post 55, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1166 and local Boy Scouts came together to hold Memorial Day services for fallen veterans and comrades.

Rainstorms did not deter veterans and members of the public from gathering at Mt. Olivet Cemetery to honor America’s fallen soldiers. Legion commander Darryl Atherton again led the service at the grave of Ernest Clifford Sexton at the cemetery’s north end. “These men and women didn’t die in service to their country by choice, but they did make a choice—the choice to serve the nation and defend the freedoms we Americans have shared for more than 200 years,” he said ...