Towns planning events to honor those who served, died
By Lynda Zimmer
Saturday May 24, 2008
Organizers of Memorial Day services in the Fisher area on Sunday encourage the public to observe a decades-long tradition of military units performing.
"This is a terrific opportunity to pay tribute to the soldiers defending the great United States of America and to see these military units performing in public," said a news release from Harold Curfman, past grand master of the Patriarchs Militant Independent Order of Odd Fellows' Grand Lodge of Illinois. "Working with the local Amvets has been a tradition here ... for nearly 50 years."
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