Memorials to honor the fallen Monday in the Basin
Jeanie Radder, past American Legion Auxiliary Fourth District chaplain, delivers the opening prayer at a previous Memorial Day ceremony at Pioneer Memorial Gardens. This year’s ceremony will be at 11 a.m. Monday.
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Pastor and retired Army chaplain Mike Swartz and his wife Lesa prepare to lay roses at a previous memorial for 87 U.S. service members who died when their transport aircraft crashed at Larson Air Force Base on Dec. 20, 1952. Swartz will deliver the invocation and benediction at this year’s memorial Monday at 11 a.m.
Flags and crosses line the base of a fallen veterans memorial in Soap Lake. There will be a Memorial Day ceremony at the Soap Lake cemetery at 10 a.m. Monday.
COLUMBIA BASIN — Among the barbecues, festivities and relaxation of the three-day weekend, many Basin communities will take a solemn moment to recognize the reason for Memorial Day weekend.
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