The body of 25-year-old Clifford H. Strickland, a U.S. Army technician fifth grade from Fowler in southeastern Colorado, was officially identified five years after being exhumed from a Philippine cemetery, where he and other POWs had been reburied as unknown soldiers following the end of the war.
Jay Symonds of Sherburne, assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 204th Engineer Battalion, received a promotion in March to the rank of command sergeant major.
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Jeff Odegaard, speaking Monday to a near-capacity crowd of about 300 at the Emma Kelly Theater, reminded people that Memorial Day is not for veterans, but for those who died from all manner of causes in military service to their country.