I headed up to the Red, White, Blue with many flags in Willamette National Cemetery to remember and pay tribute. What a wonderful remembrance for all the lives lost. The cemetery grounds were impeccably groomed.
I am sorry the 70th annual Memorial Day observance was canceled this week, but we will still honor all the same “Avenue of the Flags.” The Boy Scouts in the past from the Portland area and the 10,000 volunteers put a flag on each grave, like I did as a 4-year-old Wisconsin farm girl with my loving grandfather, who was disabled and walking with a cane in one hand, and my hand in the other placing red geraniums and a flag on the graves. I had the gracious cemetery representative spend a few moments with me. In honor, I placed huge red geraniums and flags on the graves of my husbands, Dr. Harold Eugene Smith, M.D., and Edwin C. Zoll.
We appreciate our veterans and we pay tribute to each of you, for the universal hope of freedom, and liberty to all. I am proud to be a national anthem singer and I honored the national anthem to the office staff at Willamette National Cemetery.
