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Memorial Day honors planned for Atchison Co vets

By Brian Hagen

05/23/2025

(KAIR)--Two Atchison County-based veterans organizations will, on the morning of Memorial Day Monday, pay honors to their fallen, fellow comrades.

According to a release, Fleming-Jackson American Legion Post #6 and Lt. Jared Fox Jackson VFW Post 1175 will, as tradition holds, travel to Atchison County cemeteries that morning for the annual Memorial Day services for U.S. military veterans.

The American Legion, Monday morning, will make presentations at Oak Hill Cemetery at 8:50; Mt. Vernon at 9:10; St. Patrick at 9:35; Sumner at 10:00; and Sugar Creek, in Rushville, Missouri, at 10:35.

The VFW, meanwhile, will make presentations at Lancaster Cemetery, beginning at 9:00; Effingham Evergreen Cemetery, at 9:25; Effingham St. Ann's at 9:40; Sunset Memory Garden at 10:20; and Mt. Calvary at 10:35.

At 11:00, both veterans' organizations will join together at Atchison's River Front Veterans Park to perform the final presentation of the morning near the U.S.S. Arizona.

A flag presentation, with 21 gun salute by a firing squad, followed by a bugler playing taps, will be done at each cemetery.

The release notes that all times are approximate, with those wanting to attend Monday morning's ceremonies encouraged to arrive at the cemetery, or cemeteries, of their choice around 20 minutes in advance of the scheduled ceremony due to travel times between each cemetery.

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