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JAMES BEATY | Staff photoHunter Fry plays Taps on his trumpet on Memorial Day at the Veterans Memorial in Hartshorne s Elmwood Park as part of the Taps Across America project to honor the nation s fallen military service members.
JAMES BEATY | Staff photoDoug Jennings, left, provides some musical accompaniment, while American Legion Post 180 Chaplin Dan Denny, right, sings a patriotic song during Memorial Day ceremonies at Hartshorne s Elmwood Cemetery.
JAMES BEATY | Staff photoHartshorne sophomore Hunter Fry plays Taps on his trumpet at the Veterans Memorial at Hartshorne s Elmwood Cemetery as part of the Taps Across America project.
JAMES BEATY | Staff photoSheryl Moore, left, and Maddie Walker stand at the podium while Walker reads the poem America s Answer to In Flanders Field, which Moore had read a few minutes earlier during Memorial Day services at Elmwood Cemetery in Hartshorne.Â
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Covid-19 has shown that resilience must be built into the UK’s manufacturing supply chains, says Maddie Walker, Managing Director at Accenture.
It is fair to say no-one could have predicted the monumental impact COVID-19 has had on every single industry across the world. Typically, with financial crashes there are ripples and warning signs of imminent disruption, but the global pandemic came seemingly from nowhere and transformed the fundamental aspects of our everyday lives.
One sector that was hit particularly hard was the global manufacturing industry, many of whom rely on global supply chains. Many believed that robust global manufacturing supply chains were in place, but once China had gone into lockdown to suppress the virus, many global companies with a heavy dependence on China’s component parts soon struggled to maintain the output of their manufacturing production and operations. This came at a time wh