Photos by Joseph Cyr, Shelby Hartin and Gloria Austin
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| AT ATTENTION — Jim Burton stands and salutes during Oakfield’s ceremony. | FLAG DETAIL — Members of the flag detail are, from left, Donald Marley, Fred Anderson, Eli Crane and Merlon Crandall stand at attention during the Memorial Day ceremonies in Island Falls last Monday. |
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| PATRIOTIC PARTICIPANTS — Don Michaud and his son Chris observe the Memorial Day ceremonies in Island Falls with flags in hand. | AT REST — Members of the Southern Aroostook Community School Band and band director Kermit McGary rest after marching to the Island Falls cemetery, where Memorial Day ceremonies were held. |
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| ALWAYS IN HER HEART — Josephine McGuire, a Gold Star mother, stands next to her son’s cross in Evergreen Cemetery during Memorial Day. McGuire’s grief for her son Harry, who was killed in action in Vietnam, never ends. There is no comfort to ease the pain of losing a child. | SOLEMN MOMENT — Merle Burpee stands with his hand over his heart prior to placing a wreath into the water during Oakfield’s celebration. |
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| Contributed photograph IN HONOR — Ken Sercerchi, member of Royal Canadian Legion Branch #24 Hartland, N.B., places flags on the gravesites of six Canadian and one New Zealand Veteran buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Houlton in preparation of Memorial Day. Sercerchi salutes at the gravesides of George N. Harrison, Royal New Zealand Air Force flying officer and Henry Bordewick, a sergeant in the Royal Canadian Air Force who each died Dec. 5, 1942. |
