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Yes, this year, as Cub Scout pack committee chair, I marched rather than watched.<\/p>\n
In this picture, an older Boy Scout and a dad are carrying the flags; during the parade each boy wanted a turn carrying the flag, then discovered fairly quickly that it was acutally heavy, and then someone else took a turn. \u00a0They also had candy to hand out (OK, throw out), and were so over-excited it lasted half the route. \u00a0Note to self: \u00a0ration the candy next year, since all the exhortations of the dads, \u201cPace yourself!\u201d had no effect. \u00a0(There are no spectators in this picture because it was taken in the line-up area by the railroad tracks before hitting the actual start of the parade.)<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got no pictures of relatives, however distant, dying in wars, so I can\u2019t share them today. \u00a0My mother\u2019s father was too old, and my father\u2019s father was employed in an \u201cimportant to the war effort\u201d job. \u00a0My great-uncle was in the Air Force in World War II, and two uncles were in Vietnam, but all returned safe and sound. \u00a0My grandfather-in-law was a POW, and never in good health afterwards \u2014 but, well, yeah, that was in Siberia, after being conscripted into the German army as an ethnic German in annexed Poland.<\/p>\n
So this is as best as I can do for the day.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, this year, as Cub Scout pack committee chair, I marched rather than watched. In this picture, an older Boy Scout and a dad are carrying the flags; during the parade each boy wanted a turn carrying the flag, then discovered fairly quickly that it was acutally heavy, and then someone else took a turn. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":4619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[396],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-memorial-day"],"yoast_head":"\n