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Never too early : As High Desert residents honor the fallen, some parents use Memorial Day to teach sacrifice
Victorville Daily Press
Coast Guard veteran Tyrone Brown spent part of his Memorial Day at his father’s grave in Victorville, where he wiped away tears as he planted an American flag and other patriotic adornments.
“He was a good man, and we were very close,” Brown, 63, said of his father, World War II Navy veteran Fred A. Brown, who was laid to rest in 2004 at Victor Valley Memorial Park and Mortuary on Eleventh Street.
Despite the park canceling this year’s annual Memorial Day ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown and a host of others visited the cemetery to pay their respects to loved ones who served in the military.
For the second year in a row, Memorial Day events in the High Desert will be hampered by COVID-19 restrictions that have forced the cancellation of some events.
The frenetic scene inside a California hospital struggling to keep pace with the coronavirus pandemic
Print article APPLE VALLEY, Calif. - The hospital spreads over a block along Happy Trails Highway, which splits this high-desert town in half as it runs low and wide down a gentle hill. All around St. Mary Medical Center is a new silence. Fat Jack’s Bar & Grill is shuttered, never to reopen. The Chamber of Commerce, featuring a rearing, life-size model of the mid-century movie-star horse Trigger, is empty. “Intermission,” reads the marquee of the High Desert Center for the Arts, which sits at the edge of this longtime home of antique Hollywood royalty, the singing cowboy Roy Rogers and his co-star wife, Dale Evans.