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The significance, history, and tradition of bright red poppies on Memorial Day.

Memorial Day observances in 2018 at the Stone monument in Cedar Grove Cemetery. Bill Forry photo The dark hours of Covid can seem like a distant memory some days. But Memorial Day is not one of those days, at least in Dorchester, where a lingering legacy of the pandemic is the absence of a proper observation of the national holiday to salute our war dead at Cedar Grove

By LAAH TUCKERAmerican Legion Auxiliary Unit 109Natoma American Legio

In the run-up to a major anniversary of the Second World War, Lisa Salmon asks the experts how families can find out what their relatives did during the conflict.

During World War !, in the year of 1915, there was an exceptionally horrific battle known as the Second Battle of Ypres, Belgium. During this battle, the use of poison gas by the German Army devastated the Allied troops. Dr. John McCrae, who was part of the Canadian Field Artillery Unit, had a friend, Alexis Helmer who was part of the 18,000 Canadians that were killed in that battle. During Helmers burial service, McCrae wrote the first few lines of the poem Flanders Fields. The poppies are a reminder of the valiant servicemen that paid the ultimate sacrifice, defending their […]