Tag: memorial day

Every year on the last Monday of May, we gather not in celebration but to remember.  Memorial Day is a day carved into our national...

Members of the Hollister Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9242 honored those who gave their all during two Memorial Day ceremonies at local cemeteries.  First,...

As Memorial Day approaches, our community—like many across the nation—prepares for parades, backyard cookouts, and the unofficial start of summer. But at the heart...

Local residents, veterans and families gathered at the downtown Hollister Veterans Memorial Building May 27 to remember and pay their respects to those who...

Hollister’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9242 will host Memorial Day remembrance ceremonies at cemeteries throughout town on the May 27 holiday.  “(On) this date...

Local veterans groups are planning a series of events in Hollister over Memorial Day weekend to remember U.S. military veterans who have died while...

Ray Friend was 30 feet away from one of the explosions that went off on the U.S.S. Enterprise on Jan. 14, 1969. Twenty-eight people...

For more than a decade with occasions like Memorial Day, locals have perused the brick pavers at the Veterans Memorial Building courtyard’s outer edge to see a glimpse of someone they once knew, or perhaps a family member or friend who died for the country.

The morning after the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941, a 22-year-old Del Byler enlisted in the Army Air Corps.  

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