Before Memorial Day grilling began, Bay Area residents took pause to honor service members who died while serving in the military.At The Grove in Clayton, today’s ceremony was attended by over 150 citizens and military members. Colonel Michael Hudson, United States Marine Corps (Ret.) presented a wreath to Blue Star Mom Mary Tollefson, of Clayton. […]
People gathered in the East Bay Thursday for the 60th annual beacon lighting ceremony atop Mount Diablo that both paid tribute to those who lost their lives in.
At the age of 99, Earl “Chuck” Kohler is among the last of a quickly vanishing generation of veterans that personally remembers the attack at Pearl Harbor the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
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