Three volleys and Taps: Belfield American Legion to host Memorial Day programming
For more than a century, the Belfield American Legion Post has been honoring fallen veterans with its annual Memorial Day program. 5:36 pm, May 27, 2021 ×
The Belfield American Legion Color Guard marches toward the Belfield Theater for the town’s Memorial Day Services. The legion s annual Memorial Day program will take place at 10 a.m. Monday, May 31, 2021, inside the Belfield Theater with a PowerPoint presentation and guest speaker followed by a luncheon at the Legion Hall. (Dickinson Press File Photo)
From the U.S. Marine Corps to the U.S. Navy, local veterans will dust off their old service uniforms and suit up with white World War II-model helmets on Memorial Day, marching down the street in Belfield in a salute to fellow veterans who have passed on.
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Lessons learned
A few days ago I realised that I had forgotten to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the great Post Office strike of 1971.
I joined the Post Office in January 1970 and I usually had three shifts: mornings starting at around 5am for a delivery round, afternoons in the bag-cleaning room, and a night shift on parcels. In those days the Post Office comprised of letters, parcels and counter services, as well as telecommunications - though my own area of work was letters and parcels.
When I started I had a week with an experienced postman and then I was on my own. We were due back at the office at 10am for breakfast in the canteen and then out at half-past for the second delivery; it was a little while before I got a second delivery out at all! Every little gap in a hedge or a low fence helped, along with a good letter-box technique - it takes time. (And then there were the dogs!)
The new nomads: Older adults find life on the road satisfying
Staying on the move can offer adventure and keep life unpredictable and interesting.
Dallas native Don Wilks practices a yoga warrior pose on the Preikestolen cliff in Norway. He’s led the nomad life for 20 years.(Don Wilks)
Four years ago, Karen DeGraffenreid discovered a book called
Home Sweet Anywhere: How We Sold Our House, Created a New Life and Saw the World. Captivated, she tore through it in one night. The next morning, she asked her husband, Paul Therriault, if he’d be game to try the nomadic life the book described.