In memoriam of heroes – Mississippi’s Best Community Newspaper

To the troopers, who by no means got here house, we salute you.

We don’t take without any consideration these in lively obligation who make sacrifices for our nation at the moment. 

We honor you each day. We additionally don’t take without any consideration those that have served and are honorably discharged. We thanks in your service and agree you have to be celebrated extra usually than on Veteran’s Day.

However on Memorial Day, we focus particularly on those that died whereas serving in the USA armed forces.

Many could collect with household and associates round a barbecue pit or maybe take a ship out on a lake, having fun with a three-day weekend. 

Whereas there isn’t something improper with taking a relaxation each every so often, it’s essential to additionally keep in mind what Memorial Day is all about.

A few of our associates and neighbors will have a good time not on the lake or with household, however at cemeteries and quietly at house.

Widows could cry for his or her misplaced husbands, kids for his or her fathers or moms, or dad and mom for his or her kids. We mourn with the households which have been break up aside by struggle and those that had been by no means reunited with their family members. 

We categorical our gratitude for the heroes who gave up being with these households once more in order that we might proceed celebrating the unofficial begin of summer season.  

This Memorial Day, we encourage you to participate within the 8 a.m. stroll from the nook of Magnolia and Alabama streets in Vidalia, throughout the Mississippi River Bridge, and the gathering on the Natchez Customer Heart. We encourage you to later take part within the memorial service on the Natchez Nationwide Cemetery. We additionally encourage everybody to be part of the libation ceremony honoring U.S. Coloured Troops, remembering that some United States residents needed to battle longer for freedom than others.

Although the reminiscence is painful, we select by no means to neglect all the courageous women and men who sacrificed their lives for us to acquire and keep our freedoms and our peace of thoughts.