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Lincoln memorial Day observance
The Lincoln American Legion Post 9 Honor Guard fires the traditional 21-gun salute to honor America's fallen Service Members during the May 31 Memorial Day Presentation at the Lincoln Community Hall.
Doug Vulcan tells the story of the red poppy, memorialized in Lt. Col John McCrae's 1915 poem 'In Flanders Fields.'
Logan Joyce plays 'Taps' following the rifle salute.
Lincoln students sing the National Anthem at the start of the service.
Jim Phennicie salutes the flag after returning it to full staff.
At the Lincoln American Legion Post 9 Memorial Day observance, Doug Vulcan told the story of the red poppy, memorialized in Lt. Col John McCrae's 1915 poem 'In Flanders Field' and how it became the Official flower of the American Legion in memory of the fallen. He told of Moina Belle Michael, who penned 'We Shall Keep the Faith' a poem in response to McCrae. She created the tradition of wearing poppies with a pledge "to KEEP THE FAITH and always to wear a red poppy of Flanders Fields as a sign of remembrance and the emblem of 'keeping the faith with all who died.'"
Her pledge was a response to the final lines in McRae's poem:
'The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.'
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