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Elizabeth Maloney Schensted June 30, 1929 ~June 27, 2011 Liz’s son Dave came into the make-shift chapel where the Mass for Liz was going to be said. He was carrying a folded American Flag. The kind the funeral homes give you when your loved one was a veteran. My father had one. So did Mike’s [...]
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Uncle Ted joined the Washington State National Guard in 1936, the first year the National Guard size was increased since 1926. He had wanted to join the Civilian Conservation Corps but his father told him there was enough work to do right there at home. For four years Ted attended weekly meetings and two-week/year shifts [...]
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When I was growing up nearly every house on our block and in our small neighborhood of La Crescenta, California hosted an American Flag on Memorial Day. Sunday night my father would get out Old Glory from the closet and set it beside the door, in the hallway, ready to be posted the next morning. [...]
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Joy cometh in the morning, the scriptures tell us. And this morning we are here to celebrate the life of my father, Lowell Todd Sanford.
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August, 8, 2008, Lowell Todd Sanford was laid to rest at Riverside National Cemetery, honored for his service to our country. The Riverside staff went out of their way to find a real bugler, not just a recording, and while there was a bauble or two, Taps was beautifully, respectfully, sad. The presentation of the [...]
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