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Pandemic brings smaller, subdued Memorial Day observances

by Associated Press
| May 25, 2020 2:03 PM

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Americans settled for small processions and online tributes instead of parades Monday as they observed Memorial Day in the shadow of the pandemic, which forced communities to honor the nation’s military dead with modest, more subdued ceremonies that also remembered those lost to the coronavirus.

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