Fun to watch the Memorial Day Parade back in my old neighborhood in the south side of Chicago.
Video of the Start of the parade.
The parade kicked off from 110th and Longwood Drive and proceeded north. The Color Guard was from 2/24, the Marine Infantry Battalion on the west side of Chicago. I marched in a parade on Longwood Drive leading a platoon of Marines in 1973. I spotted my MPHS Russian teacher Miss Petrus. We were trained to greet her, so I belted out
Strastvooey te, Soyia Sergeevna, a kok vi pushaviatee!!
Soyia Sergeevna frantically looked around trying to find who was calling her, clearly one of her former students. But she did not see me and I had to keep marching in front of the platoon. Dosvedanya, Soyia Sergeevna.
Click to see the Video of The Jesse White Tumblers
The Model A Roadster above looks like the Model A Roadster I drove on Longwood Drive to MPHS in 65, although the one in the photo is in much better condition.
My Model A at modelahullinger.blogspot.com
Click for a Bagpipe Video
My personal favorite - this bus from Smith Village carried a number of World War II and Korean Veterans, including my father Clif Hullinger.
More about Clif's service in North Africa and Italy at:
109thengineers34thdivision.blogspot.com
The group above are the Southsiders for Peace. They were on the sidewalk and told us they had been prevented from marching in the parade
southsidersforpeace.org
The dance group below showing some energetic moves.
I'm getting in just under the wire here for this holiday-related blog,
which deals in part with the Memorial Day Parade down Longwood Drive. I'd love to hear what memories of that event others have, to see how they do or don't jibe with my own.
Thanks to all who have served, and absolute gratitude to those who paid for our freedoms with their lives.
Taffy Cannon, June '66
Carlsbad, California
Click below to read a blog post written by Taffy about Decoration Day:
thaliapressauthors.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/decoration-day
The group above are the Southsiders for Peace. They were on the sidewalk and told us they had been prevented from marching in the parade
southsidersforpeace.org
The dance group below showing some energetic moves.
I'm getting in just under the wire here for this holiday-related blog,
which deals in part with the Memorial Day Parade down Longwood Drive. I'd love to hear what memories of that event others have, to see how they do or don't jibe with my own.
Thanks to all who have served, and absolute gratitude to those who paid for our freedoms with their lives.
Taffy Cannon, June '66
Carlsbad, California
Click below to read a blog post written by Taffy about Decoration Day:
thaliapressauthors.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/decoration-day
Patrick Butler RIP
Patrick Butler - Teacher at Morgan Park
It is so nice that he attended MP’s class of 1962 50th Reunion.
Correspondence here is from two members of that class Lois Radakovtiz Lemon
and Barbara Stevenson Spencer (Tex) Bailey.
Thought I’d pass it on in case any of you remember.
The pictures are from their 50th reunion. Link to obituary also.
Nan Brennan
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Lois Lemon"Subject: Patrick ButlerDate: May 25, 2014 at 9:19:16 AM CDTIt is with a sad heart that I pass along the email I got from Barb Stevenson Bailey this morning…….
The pictures attachments were taken two years ago at our 50th reunion. Wish there were more
Eternal Rest Grant to him O Lord….Good morning everyone! I opened the Tribune this morning and found the obituary of Pat Butler. I went past his house the other day and thought,
I really ought to see how he is. For anyone interested in going, the wake isVisitation: Tuesday May 27, 2014 at Curley funeral Home, 6116 West 111th St , Chicago Ridge. Its just east side of Ridgeland.
Funeral: Wednesday from Curley Funeral Home to St. Christina Church ,111th & Homan and Holy Sepulcher Cemetery.What a great man with a wonderful sense of humor. I know how old he was , he still should have lived forever.
Please pass the word to anyone you think may want the information.
Have a happy Memorial Day ,thank God for our service men.!!
Love, Barb
Morgan Park Graduates on the Vietnam Memorial Wall
Morgan Park Alumni
on the Vietnam Memorial Wall
Our thanks to all of our fallen High School Comrades
Jim Beck
Robert Maurice Cunningham
Robert Maurice Cunningham
Larry Dart
Ricky Green
Sgt Holstein
Bruce Huff
Al McNabb
Mills Miller
Warren Muhr
Robert Nawrocki
William Newbold
William Lee Owen Jr
And thanks to all the ones we don't know about:
Click below for more info:
Memorial Day Parade
Steps off at 1030 am from 110th Longwood Drive
Proceeds north to Ridge Park
More Information call BAPA
(Photos by Gloria Olsen Williams, Warren Smith)
My father Clif Hullinger and many of his fellow WWII vets from the Smith Village will be riding in the parade y
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