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CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN CEMETERY (1)

Wreaths Silently Wait
for their bearers to carry them in procession
Band Practices
quietly before ceremony begins
Colors Lead
the opening procession
C-47 "Whiskey 7" and a Spitfire
fly past.  W7 went on to Normandy for events there including paradrops
Presentation of Colors

 

Posting of Colors Wreath Bearers
seemingly as far as the eye can see
Allied Forces
military representatives were on hand as well
Wreath Presentation
to family members who will lay them at a grave site
ABMC* Wreath
was one of many prepared for the occasion
SRO "Squatting Room Only"
with a huge crowd in attendance
Joseph "Max" Maxwell Cleland
now the ABMC Secretary, lost both legs and an arm at Khe Sanh in 1968.  His presentation was moving.
Bag Piper
leads the retreating procession at the ceremony's end
Ernie Lamson
visits grave of brother Walter
Walter Lamson
a B-24 navigator died in a crash at Cheddington in 1944
Black Boots and Brown Boots
make for paratrooper brothers as a young British trooper introduced himself to Ernie
*ABMC - American Battle Monuments Commission

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