GALLERY: Memorial Day memories
Community members place memorial flags on graves at Valley View Memorial Park in Soap Lake on Memorial Day 2024.
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People gather at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery for a ceremony in remembrance of veterans in 2023.
The grave of U.S. Army Air Force Major and World War II veteran Perry D. Brown is decorated for Memorial Day 2024.
Veterans Operation Creation choir members sing during the Quincy Memorial Day observances last year.
Commemorative roses were laid at the base of the Forgotten Heroes Memorial in Moses Lake on Memorial Day 2020.
Members of American Legion Post 28 in Ephrata fire a 21-gun salute in honor of the veterans buried at the Ephrata Cemetery during a Memorial Day ceremony in 2024.
Marcia Cordell places flowers on the graves of her in-laws Waco and Naomi Cordell at the 2020 Memorial Day ceremony at Pioneer Memorial Gardens in Moses Lake.
COLUMBIA BASIN — On the last Monday of May, Americans across the nation, and across the Basin, come together to honor those who have fallen in their country’s service. The Columbia Basin Herald will have coverage of this year’s solemnities in tomorrow’s edition; meanwhile, here are some scenes from Memorial Days past.
People gather at Pioneer Memorial Cemetery for a ceremony in remembrance of veterans in 2023.
The grave of U.S. Army Air Force Major and World War II veteran Perry D. Brown is decorated for Memorial Day 2024.
Veterans Operation Creation choir members sing during the Quincy Memorial Day observances last year.
Commemorative roses were laid at the base of the Forgotten Heroes Memorial in Moses Lake on Memorial Day 2020.
Members of American Legion Post 28 in Ephrata fire a 21-gun salute in honor of the veterans buried at the Ephrata Cemetery during a Memorial Day ceremony in 2024.
Marcia Cordell places flowers on the graves of her in-laws Waco and Naomi Cordell at the 2020 Memorial Day ceremony at Pioneer Memorial Gardens in Moses Lake.