Cumby Boy Scouts conduct the flag raising ceremony at Cumby Cemetery, Monday
morning, for Memorial Day Services

 

Hopkins County Remembers....

 

by: Bobby McDonald

 

 

President Obama placed a red, white, and blue wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, at Arlington National Cemetery, while in the background, in Section 60, there was loose soil from recent burials of Iraq and Afghanistan casualties, on Monday morning. Meanwhile, at 10:00 a.m., a group of veterans, observers, and Boy Scouts, gathered at the Cumby Cemetery, in Hopkins County, to conduct their own ceremony, marking the great sacrifices of the freedoms we enjoy.

 

 

Memorial Day was orginally established in 1868, as "Decoration Day," honoring those Union Soldiers, who had fought and died, during the Civic War. However, the holiday was named "Memorial Day" in 1882. It became a three-day national holiday, in 1971.

 

 

Rev. Billy Capps, Pastor of 1st Baptist Church Cumby, was the speaker at the
Cumby Memorial Day Service.

 

 

"In Flanders Fields," by Lt. Col. John McCrae, was the poem written, on May 3, 1915, about his fallen comrade, who had died in WWI. The poem, said by some to be the greatest wartime poem ever written, describes the role of the soldier in war and states...."In Flanders Fields the poppies blow.....Between the crosses row on row....We are the Dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunsets glow....We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields!" The poppy has become the symbol of Memorial Day, since the penning of the poem.

 

 

 

Friday morning, May 22nd, at 10:00 a.m., the Hopkins County Military Coalition conducted a Memorial Day Service on the Downtown Square in Sulphur Springs, attended by local bands and the general public, marking the holiday and in remembrance of those who have served our country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The debt of freedom comes due in each generation...."

Former President Ronald Reagan

 

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