Monday, May 26, 2025

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.


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4 comments:

  1. -Alan D HopewellMay 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM

    Sadly, for a lot of folks this day is just another excuse to party on a day off.

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  2. BusterMay 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM

    It's also a good day to remember all the heroes who survived their tour of war service - my father, father-in-law and uncles among them - and who have now passed away.

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    1. Dan BradyMay 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM

      You're absolutely right, Buster. What's nice is that in Lorain at Elmwood Cemetery, they put American flags on all veterans on Memorial Day and Veterans Day.(Well, almost all – for some reason Dad never gets one, even though he has a military stone.)

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  3. Don HiltonMay 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM

    Yesterday, my sweetheart and I were out touring cemeteries in Sandusky and Ottawa Counties. Many, many, many, too many flags. Sobering.

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