Memorial Day ceremony to resume at Veterans Center
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Like he has done annually for over 20 years, Wesley Hull was contemplating a Memorial Day ceremony weeks ago. At one point earlier this month, with vaccines rolling out and public heath recommendations lifted, he decided to sit down and write a few words even though he had not been given a green light by the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Ardmore to have a ceremony.
“I thought they may open up because the numbers keep going down, but it’s going to be very short notice for us to get anything together,” Hull recalled on Thursday. “I’m sitting at my computer at home writing a Memorial Day speech. The telephone rings and I said ‘you’ve got to be kidding me.’”
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President Biden s first full day in office will focus on the coronavirus pandemic, including new executive actions that signal a more aggressive federal approach than that employed by the Trump administration, according to the White House.
With Biden aides complaining that the Trump administration left them with no national plan to follow, the new president on Thursday will sign 10 executive orders and other actions to jump-start his team s strategy to slow the spread of COVID-19. The actions cover rolling out vaccines and ramping up testing so more businesses and schools can open.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday evening that the new president is willing to compromise with lawmakers in pursuit of his campaign-trail pledge to pass a sweeping coronavirus relief bill. But she acknowledged those negotiations, which have yet to begin, will take time. The coming actions signal Biden intends to use the powers of his office to act when he