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Pamplin Media Group - Historic cemeteries want to leave Confederate flag out of Memorial Day honors


Historic cemeteries want to leave Confederate flag out of Memorial Day honors
May 30 2021
Policy adopted in October 2020 recommends against placing controversial flag on graves of Confederate veterans buried in Oregon.
Monday, May 31, will be the first Memorial Day after a state commission agreed last fall to a policy discouraging display of the Confederate battle flag in historic cemeteries, where thousands of Civil War veterans are buried.
In October, Oregon s Commission on Historic Cemeteries adopted a position paper recommending the cemetery groups avoid displaying the battle flag on graves at the state s nearly 1,400 historic cemeteries. The commission s decision on the controversial flag is only advisory. It cannot require cemetery organizations to prevent the Confederate flag from being displayed. ....

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Pamplin Media Group - Volunteer bringing abandoned Oregon cemetery back to life


Volunteer bringing abandoned Oregon cemetery back to life
April 11 2021
James Moriarty s retirement project hacks away at overgrown brush to restore Scheel family s German Hill Cemetery.
For decades, the old German Hill Cemetery near Estacada sat unattended, hidden under a tangle of brush and vulnerable to nature s fury and vandals.
Until now.
In early February, James Moriarty, chairman of the Estacada Cemetery Maintenance District, received permission from Oregon s Commission on Historic Cemeteries to clean up and adopt the George-area cemetery northeast of town.
It s a labor of love for Moriarty. He retired a few years ago after 24 years as a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Southern California. In 2018, Moriarty moved to the rural Clackamas County town to be closer to family. ....

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