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Looking for how your town, village or city is celebrating Memorial Day this year? Here s the list of Memorial Day observances and ceremonies throughout Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties. If there is a parade, remembrance or ceremony not listed, please send an email with any information to reporter Heather Clark, hclark@lohud.com.
May 28
Katonah: The Westchester County Memorial service will be held at Lasdon Park and Arboretum at noon. Watch virtually via the county s Facebook page facebook.com/westchestergov
May 29
Haverstraw: Annual Memorial Day Watchfire at Bowline Point Park is hosted by the Vietnam Veterans of America. Those who wish to attend can gather beginning at 11 p.m. The watchfire will be lit at midnight.
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by Bill Batson
On May, 1, 1865, three weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House, ending the Civil War, the first Memorial Day was observed. Recently liberated enslaved Africans and Colored troops held the commemoration in Charleston, South Carolina to consecrate a new and proper burial site for 250 Confederate prisoners who died from exposure and disease.
A Memorial Day service that will be held in West Nyack on May 31, 2021 at 10:00am at Mount Moor Cemetery provides a direct connection to the origins of the solemn holiday. One of the ten veterans, whose headstones were replaced this month by the Department of Veteran Affairs and will be unveiled on Monday is Solomon Miller, a witness to Lee’s surrender.
Nyack Sketch Log: Korean War Hero and Ten Civil War Veterans receive Memorial Day Honors at Mount Moor nyacknewsandviews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nyacknewsandviews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.