Happy Memorial Day – 1955

Journal Editorial Cartoon – Memorial Day 1955

Here's hoping you enjoy a happy and meaningful Memorial Day.

Sometimes the original meaning of the day – that of honoring the members of our Armed Forces who died while serving their country – is forgotten. It's all explained quite eloquently in the Journal's great editorial from Memorial Day 1955.

And as per my custom, here's the handsome full-page ad with sponsors that ran in the Lorain Journal on May 28, 1955.

There are a few companies listed that are still around in some form, 70 years later. Besides the Morning Journal, there's Amherst Memorial Studio; Polansky's Market; the Lorain Telephone Company (now Lumen); Castle-on-the-Lake (Papasitos and Beer Mexican Grill); Airport Tavern (Mutt & Jeff's); and Shields Rest Clinic (Sprenger Health Care).

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Although none of my relatives lost their lives while serving this country, on Memorial Day I can't help but remember Army Sgt. Bruce Horner of Lorain, who was killed in action in Iraq in June 2007.