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Arlington commemorates Memorial Day with annual parade, ceremony at cemetery BY LAUREN SALCEDO lsalcedo@arlingtontimes.com
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The annual Arlington Memorial Day parade carried on down Olympic Avenue on May 28, despite a heavy rainfall.
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Students memorialize the Holocaust BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Vol. 123, No. 37
SEE FALLEN, PAGE 2
ARLINGTON — The stage of the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center was starkly unfurnished, to match the all-black outfits worn by the 20 Arlington High School French class students who spoke and sang that evening, and to reflect the somber mood of the passages from which they read. Sue Weingarten, who teaches French III and IV along with Sherida Taylor, had spent more than a dozen years compiling quotations about the Holocaust and the Nazi occupation of France from historic quotations by the French people themselves, and on Wednesday, May 23, her research was performed as “France in Her Own Words” by the students who
had devoted two weeks to rehearsing the material, after devoting the two weeks prior to that studying the Holocaust from a French perspective in Weingarten’s class. “It was just a matter of finding pieces that fit the chronological progression of events, and arranging them in a coherent order,” said Weingarten, whose Holocaust education efforts were initially inspired by her own family’s history. “The more I learned, the more fascinating the topic became. It’s a microcosm of universal humanity, a study of at least five lifetimes.” After two weeks of learning the history and discussing how it intersected with politics, justice and personal SEE HOLOCAUST, PAGE 2
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From left, Arlington High School French class students Keeley Killebrew, Kate Hagenston, Esra Al-Ameedi and Kayla Wright look on and study their own lines as Naheed Arang delivers her “This I believe…” closing statement during the ‘France in Her Own Words” readers theater at the Linda M. Byrnes Performing Arts Center on May 23.
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ARLINGTON — The crowd at several Arlington Memorial Day ceremonies gathered in the hundreds despite an unusually heavy rainfall on Memorial Day, May 28. Ominous clouds moved overhead before the downtown Arlington parade began at 10 a.m., and raindrops slowly increased in size and speed until a steady downpour fell over both the crowd and the many who gathered to march. Boy Scouts held a banner for the local Arlington chapter of the American Legion, Post 76, and were
followed by the Legion’s Color Guard, Arlington High School Naval Junior ROTC, the AHS marching band, local Girl Scout and Boy Scout troops and World War II veterans. Locals gathered on the sidewalks of Olympic Avenue — appropriately decorated with American flags on each lightpost — to watch the parade and to pay respects to fallen soldiers. Following the parade, spectators gathered at the Arlington Cemetery at 11 a.m. to honor those who gave their lives in combat. “We will always remem-