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Please enjoy the video of this year’s Memorial Day ceremony at the cemetery in Fort Bragg. The cemetery is flying the glorious colors today, all men and women who lived their full lives after serving, at least that I could find. If we have an service members who died overseas and were interred here, I didn’t find them. The veterans area of the cemetery quickly filled up and makes impressive scene. I found this woman, who lives in the Bay Area, who had returned to put a photo of her grandfather and grandmother, both of whom served in WWI, the “War to End All Wars”, atop the grave of her father, whose service was in World War II, also known as the Big One.

There were many of these red, yellow and black firefighter flags out too. The Memorial Day flags are put on all those gone, although memorial day specifically is for those who died in service.

I have reposted all the Memorial Day work I did here.

This piece in the Mendocino Voice I did in 2023 has the names of all the service members who died overseas in the 20th and 20th centuries from the plaques in the back.

I didn’t know Hugo and Pearl, but Celeri is a great old name in Fort Bragg. Hugo was postmaster and a volunteer firefighter, the flag indicates. Imagine the honor of being able to put a life of service like this on your grave. Imagine if you had nothing better to put on your grave than I was a billionaire and spent my life being greedy and never serving other people.

This home, just south of Green Acres on State Route 1 north of Fort Bragg, has the best display every patriotic holiday.

The honor guard fired the salute and then let these gals have the empty shells. Fun!