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Memorial Day as an institution: the position, and its settler

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AUDIT ROW #288 · THE OBSERVANCE AS A STANDING INSTITUTION, AT ITS REACH

The G.A.R. The institution's historical course on this ground — the post's Decoration Day parades, speakers, and cemetery rounds across the decades the G.A.R. and then the Legion kept them — does not stand in any source this seat reached whole; it lives in the Walkerton Independent's May files, year by year, and that run is the item's named settler. The row closes as a named gap with the standing position printed: the observance exists and is kept (the post's present commemoration rides inside Wars & Military Service's Post 189 record, pointed to), and its dated history awaits the settler named. Nothing is borrowed from the county seat's better-documented ceremonies to fill the local line.

Principal sources: Wars & Military Service (Post 189's record), pointed to; settler named — the Walkerton Independent's May files.

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Source: Memorial Day as an institution: the position, and its settler, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/veterans/memorial-day-as-an-institution-the-position-and-its/