Soldiers’ Monument
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.As a result of social distancing requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Soldiers’ Monument will remain closed to the public. The Soldiers’ Monument Commission’s annual October cemetery walk, where our volunteers bring to life historical people from town, also has been cancelled this year.
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.Memorial Day Ceremony 2020 (virtual) – Winchester/Winsted sponsored by the Soldiers’ Monument Commission may be accessed on YouTube here: soldiersmonumentwinsted https://youtu.be/o3oJStkJI28 The film also is available on Charter Cable Channel 194.
We would not have been able to make this video without the tireless assistance of Dylan Avery and Cash Pac.
A DIFFERENT COLOR FLOWER, By Gail Hoxie (2020 Memorial Day Poetry contest winner)
Poppies grew by the small crosses where the Land had been
churned and turned from boots digging in
and shells stealing lives that were buried in the ground
The Decoration day lore — the land healed
and offered bright red poppies after the war
And so we decorate the graves of those we have lost and now
Call it Memorial Day
2020 Memorial Day is such a strange war still
stealing lives as we fight hard
Fighting the unseen COVID across the globe
and burying the ones we love sometimes in hasty graves
What will the bright colored flower be
when this war is done
One thing is certain
There will be one
And summer will come
May 25, 2020
We would not have been able to make this video without the tireless assistance of Dylan Avery and Cash Pac.
A DIFFERENT COLOR FLOWER, By Gail Hoxie (2020 Memorial Day Poetry contest winner)
Poppies grew by the small crosses where the Land had been
churned and turned from boots digging in
and shells stealing lives that were buried in the ground
The Decoration day lore — the land healed
and offered bright red poppies after the war
And so we decorate the graves of those we have lost and now
Call it Memorial Day
2020 Memorial Day is such a strange war still
stealing lives as we fight hard
Fighting the unseen COVID across the globe
and burying the ones we love sometimes in hasty graves
What will the bright colored flower be
when this war is done
One thing is certain
There will be one
And summer will come
May 25, 2020
Thanks to the generosity of taxpayers and donors, the monument's renovation is continuing with the next phase the replacement of all the windows and frames.
