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Memorial Day, and the county's hand

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The record as searched in Passes IV-2, IV-3 and IV-6; the county framework at pointer

The town's own observance is not established. No carrier reached prints a Memorial Day service, a Veterans Day act, a flag ceremony, or a homecoming for Indian Village in any year — the events file's tested negatives stand behind the sentence: the town's dated public acts in print are its government's acts, and no observance of memory is among them. The observances its residents can reach are the county's and the township grounds': the services at the county's cemeteries and monuments in South Bend, and — at the strength of custom rather than print — the decoration of the township's own grounds, the Ullery burying ground above all, where the township's three named soldiers of Howard's burial roll and its War of 1812 veteran rest. No carrier prints a service at that ground either, and none is claimed. The county's official hand prints at pointer, as the sibling pass established it: a sitting county veterans service officer serves the county's veterans from the county seat, and the region's VA clinic stands in the county's cities — the frame through which this town's veterans, like the township's before them, reach the federal system. The town itself keeps no office, no roll, and no day that the record names; its memory, like its dead, is carried by the frames around it, and this section prints the frames rather than inventing the observance.

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Source: Memorial Day, and the county's hand, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/indian-village/memorials/memorial-day-and-the-county-s-hand/