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How To Make Memorial Day Meaningful
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How To Make Memorial Day Meaningful

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Jim Buie
May 24, 2024
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How To Make Memorial Day Meaningful
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Who do you think about or would you like to honor on Memorial Day?

I think of my first cousin Jerry Pence, who parachuted into the Battle of the Bulge in December-January 1944. He went on to capture four German officers going AWOL at the end of the war and to stand guard in Munich to keep the peace after the war. It was a perilous situation. There were …

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