Long Beach Memorial Day Parade
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6/2/10
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We all think it: Memorial Day symbolizes the start of summer. For many Americans it means dusting off the grill and making the pool water sparkle. It means big sales at the stores. It means hot dogs, baseball and a three-day weekend. It means that spring is on its way out and the hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer are on the way in.
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5/28/10
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In 1915, in response to John McCrae’s battlefront-theme poem In Flanders Fields, Moina Micheal, a professor at the University of Georgia, published a poem in response called “We Shall Keep the …
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Mary Malloy
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5/27/10
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Alfred Palmieri has marched in the Long Beach Memorial Day parade since he was a first-grader at Long Beach Catholic Regional School on Broadway. Now a staff sergeant in the Army 3rd Brigade, …
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NICOLE PELLETIERE
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5/27/10
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On Memorial Day, show your colorsTo the Editor: Memorial Day will be here soon. This is the only day when we are instructed to fly our nation’s colors at half staff until noon. The U.S. Post …
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5/27/10
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According to official reports, six American soldiers were killed during the first two weeks of this month in Afghanistan, casualties of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/20/10
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Memorial Day parade
The City of Long Beach will pay tribute to our veterans at the annual Memorial Day Parade on May 31. This year Iraq and Afghanistan veteran SSG Alfred Palmieri will lead the …
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5/6/10
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