Two special early morning greetings ......

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MEMORIAL DAY

Parade at 9:00

followed by Memorial Day Exercises at Monument Park.



The Civil War Monument in Monument Park

The lower - granite - portion of the monument was set in place in 1899 and the bronze Civil War Soldier added in 1904.

Toward "the point" of Monument Park stands a smaller monument placed there by the Clifford J. Fulmer Post of the American Legion as a Tribute to those who served in the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and in Vietnam.

WWI
Clifford J Fulmer

("Waterville's First Hero," Fulmer had enlisted when he was 17 and was killed during a major campaign in France just after he had turned 19.)

WWII
Robert Blair - Killed in Action
Royce G Cook - Killed in Action
Edward Crowe - Missing in Action
Delos Tuffey - Killed in Action
Francis Tuffey - Died in a Prisoner of War Camp in the Philippines
Elwyn (Max) Wilbur - Missing in Action
Harry Madsen - Missing in Action
Stanley Chrzanowski -Killed in Action


KOREAN WAR
Leslie Jones - Missing in Action


VIET NAM WAR
William Reese


2ND IRAQ WAR
John Sigsbee - Killed in Action

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Flags

Every year, the Clifford J. Fulmer Post places nearly 600 new flags at the gravestones of veterans who are buried in local cemeteries.


St. Bernard's Cemetery


Hanover


Terrytown


Stockwell

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A 15' x 18' American Flag hangs in a peaceful grove next to the Cornelius residence on Route 12B south of Deansboro. Doug Cornelius' nephew, John Sigsbee, was killed in action in Iraq in January of 2008.

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Have you hung your flag?