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,e Memorial Day Remembered, Memory Of Local Veterans ":' By R.J. Kaderlik On June 6, 1944, Ike said, "Let's go." By 3:32 AM, New York time, President Roosevelt was asking Americans to pray for 176,475 men who were des- perately trying to hold onto a 50-mile stretch of sand called Normandy. It was a virtual bloodbath. Nearly 10,000 men died in that valiant struggle to secure 200 yards of beach. Three months earlier, in the Pacific, on a tiny porkchop shaped island five miles long and two and a half miles wide at its widest point, 6,000 Americans perished in a hell- hole called Iwo Jima. Two thousand four hundred died the first day. Eighteen thousand would carry wounds the rest of their lives. Five hundred men would simply vanish, lost in the nightmare, never to be seen again. The death toll during World War II would continue its gruesome climb until it eventu- ally became so grisly that President Roosevelt had the appalling numbers withheld from the press. Four and a half years later, after the fall of Germany, when they advised President Truman that it would cost another 40,000 lives to invade Japan's mainland, he opted for the bomb. Freedom's terrible tariff by then had already, laid claim to 405,399 American lives. In the course of history, from the early days at Concord and Lexington, when soldiers were called patriots, to the last bitter days of Vietnam, over !,094,000 soldiers have died for this adventure in freedom we call America. Unfortunately, soldiers aren't born soldiers. They are born people. They have names, families, sweet- hearts, hopes and dreams just like everyone else living in this country. This is why their sacri- fices should be held in such high regard. They didn't want to die on the cold clay beaches of Normandy anymore than you or I, but they did. This is why Memorial Day is so sacred. It's not a trib- ute to an army. It's a remem- brance to a freckled face kid who wanted to grow up to be a .... 1, fireman but instead, grew up just enough to die on a pork- chop shaped island in the • Pacific. It's a eulogy to a pig tailed girl who once nursed her chronically ailing dolls under the quiet shade of a globe wil- low, who matured only to die an insufferable death in a Japanese prison camp because her dolls had suddenly turned to soldiers. They were all somebody's kid, standing on America's promis- ing doorstep with everyday of life as important and precious to. them as it is to us today. The least we can do is take an hour once a year and say "thanks." This approaching Memorial Day Weekend, on Sunday the 28th, at 2 PM in Montrose High School's new gymnasium, the Disabled American Veterans, the Moore- Demoret Chapter #17, is hosting a memorial service. They have, through months of research, secured the names of those 168 men who perished in WW II from our surrounding counties and have immortalized them on plaques to be placed in the appropriate Court Houses. Supporting them in this hallowed endeavor are the American Legion Posts, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, both Montrose and Olathe High Schools, the NJROTC, the Colorado Army National Guard, the Cub and Boy Scouts, almost all of the,western slope newspa- pers, KKXK Radio (who will broadcast the ceremony live on FM 94.1), the Masonic Lodges, the Montrose Elks Lodge, the Knights of Columbus -- the list goes on and on. Locals listed In Memory: Naturita: Calvin Finch Nucla: Charles Ables Samuel H. Carr Dean L. Carver Robert B. Munson Hugh V. Denton William W. Dickerson Wayne Hoover Ernest Keep Alfred R. McCunnif Henry B. Ray Ervin W. Vanderpool Vernon W. Wallis Homer D. Wilkes Guy E. Wright Paradox: Myron Willden Jr. Redvale: Roy Henderson Uravan: Robert Bushey Norwood: Edmund T. Carver Frank'W. Gilliam . l_ester W. Gray Charles Howard Jess Lick Lester Rogers Charles Ross Earl Spillman Albert N. Spor ngratualtions Kelli! We're very proud of your accompllshement00 and wish you continued successl Kelli Joseph • - A fully insured "*---:'L __ ' ,_ " J Complete Domestic Services 327-4171 San Miguel Basin Forum, Thursday, May 25, 2000 - Pg. 3 wmiaom Cook Farm 6r Acres in Redvale with 41 Bdrm & ,  Bath home. Includes 21shares of 'emtm' with priakling system. Hay barn, shopt machine ehed and mo out bulldlnp, Presently producing hlsh yield hone hay. Build Your Dresm Home On this very private and peacehd 19r acres parcel in Paradox Valley. In addition to the Dolores River running through the property Is also borders public lands. Owner will sell partial acreages. For more information on buying or selling mesa, valley, or ranch property please call Alice at 970-327-4728 evening or weekends, and office phone during the week 970-728-4000. Fax 970-327-4294 or 970-728-4483. P. O. Box 457, 333 W. Colorado Ave., Tellurtd¢, CO.  . Ali¢€ Fac Brown Ilroker Assoc.