Awake: 5:29am Temp 50 sleep 6+12 partly cloudy overnight @ Nicktown.
K & I attend 8:00 am Mass & then return to our motorhome where the Foote family are waiting for us. Today @ 9:00am, the Memorial Day parade starts in Nicktown. The Footes haven’t experienced this event before so we are a little excited to have them here on this special occasion.
As we walk toward the center of town, we pass the fire trucks, ambulances, tractors, quad runners, etc lining up on Saint Joseph Street; the young Foote boys are definitely tuned in. The first section of the parade is lining up on Ridge Road; marching bands, veterans, scouts, etc. My brother in his dress army uniform; Tom H, in his dress Navy uniform; & several other hometown veterans wearing parts of their uniforms that still fit stir up our pride as they march by. This Memorial Day parade has been well attended for as long as I can remember. Veterans, past & present are commemorated @ the cemetery with an MC & chosen veteran host speaker. A bagpipe solo, 21 gun salute, & the single trumpeted Taps with echo complete this usually touching memorial event.
Afterward, a few of us guys plan on meeting @ Tom’s mother’s home in town to, as they say, “shoot the bull,” with classmates, friends, family, etc. We have some snacks with beer, wine, soda, etc. Meanwhile, the Foote family plus Corinne & Kathy hang out in our motorhome for a few hrs where they also have some snacks minus the beer, wine, & soda. Then around 3:00pm, they & we all return to their/our respective dwelling places.
Dinner: Italian sausage, cooked peppers with onions & mushrooms & a spinach salad.
Evening DVR: “The Apartment” with Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, etc. Superb comedy-drama that manages to embrace both sentiment & cynicism. Lemmon attempts to climb corporate ladder by loaning his apartment key to various executives for their extramarital trysts, but it backfires when he falls for his boss’s girlfriend. Oscar winner for Best Picture. 1960.
High temp=78 Lights out: 11:32pm
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