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How to Observe Memorial Day During the Pandemic
How to Observe Memorial Day During the Pandemic
6 ways to honor the fallen this year Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: An aerial view of the National World War I Museum and Memorial, which has a full slate of Memorial Day weekend events scheduled this year. (File photo)
On Memorial Day in 2019, visitors browsed the solemn exhibits of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Honolulu surrounded by 2,390 six-by-eight-inch U.S. flags, each tagged with the name and duty assignment of a person who died in the attack that prompted the United States’ entry into World War II.
By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: May 16, 2021 (Tribune News Service) On Sept. 2, 1945, the deadliest war in history officially ended on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri with Japan s unconditional surrender. More than 3, 000 service members and dignitaries most of them Missouri crew members jammed onto every bit of available real estate to watch the signing. Upwards of 250 allied ships were in Tokyo Bay. More than 1,000 fighters and bombers flew over late in the ceremony in a show of force. It was history being made on an unprecedented scale. A total of 75 million or more people had perished in World War II.
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Linda Nelson, second from right, accepts her father-in-law’s shadow box from Lynnwood firefighter Craig O’Neill (far left), Captain Todd Wigal (middle) and Kim Sharpe (far right). (Photo courtesy South County Fire)
Edmonds resident Kim Sharpe is a Navy veteran, and also works with South County Fire as its veterans outreach coordinator. “So it was just by coincidence (and) good luck,” he said, that the woman who showed up recently at Lynnwood Fire Station 15 with a shadow box of unknown origins happened to encounter him.
Fire station employees noticed she was holding a wooden display, and Sharpe said he recognized even from across the parking lot that the triangular-shaped shadow box was likely military-related because he has a similar one for his father, who had served in the Marines during World War II. Sharpe said he’s glad to have his dad’s memorabilia and medals earned while in the military and “realized another f