Soldiers’ Monument
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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.
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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
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The monument will not be open on Memorial Day, because of social distancing rules, we hope to have our next public opening on July 4th when we will have a reading of the Declaration of Independence with those in attendance reading different section of the document. The monument will be open from 2 to 4 PM with the reading scheduled for 3 PM. contact the Soldiers' Monument Commission by email: Commission@SoldiersMonumentwinsted.org
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
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The monument will not be open on Memorial Day, because of social distancing rules, we hope to have our next public opening on July 4th when we will have a reading of the Declaration of Independence with those in attendance reading different section of the document. The monument will be open from 2 to 4 PM with the reading scheduled for 3 PM. contact the Soldiers' Monument Commission by email: Commission@SoldiersMonumentwinsted.org
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.
