BY ED COLLINS
Deerfield will honor its war dead at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 26 at the Veterans Memorial in Jewett Park near the Metra Station.
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American Legion Post 738 Commander John Coughenour will officiate at the half hour ceremony, joined by the Post’s Women’s Auxiliary President Joanne Harrison and a representative from the Sons of the American Legion.
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Following the Jewett Park ceremony, the Deerfield High School Marching Band will lead a parade of Boy, Girl, and Cub Scout troops to the Deerfield Cemetery on Waukegan Road for graveside memorials.
At that time the names of the military fallen will be read and a rifle salute with echo taps will be played. War dead buried in the Deerfield Cemetery date back to the Civil War.
Over the Memorial Day weekend both Legionnaires and Auxiliary members will be downtown selling red paper poppies made by some of the disabled military now being cared for at the Lovell Federal Health Care hospital in North Chicago. All poppy proceeds go to provide services to disabled veterans.
