Community invited to line Van Buren Street, travel to the cemetery for Memorial Day Parade and observance in Columbia City
(Talk of the Town photo copyright Jennifer Zartman Romano)
American Legion Post 98 will host their annual Memorial Day Parade this Monday, May 30, 2011. Beginning at 10 a.m., anyone interested in participating in the parade should arrive at the Marshall Community Building on Walnut Street in Columbia City. From there, at 10:30 a.m., the parade will proceed eastward down Van Buren Street and south on Madison to Greenhill Cemetery where further activities will take place. Above, a display of crosses and flags representing Whitley County's deceased war veterans decorates the lawn of American Legion Post 98. Legion volunteers have also placed flags in each of the county's cemeteries -- one for each known veteran buried there. Families are invited to place those flags on veterans flags in remembrance of their sacrifice.