Santa Fe New Mexican, May 28, 2013

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Mobile units set to help animals in crises

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Memorial Day service at cemetery pays tribute to those who have served

Trailers equipped to house pets, livestock at emergency shelters By Julie Ann Grimm The New Mexican

Emergency shelters for evacuees were used for several weeks during the 2011 Las Conchas Fire. While humans could sleep at the Santa Claran casino, their animal companions weren’t welcome there. Santa Fe County emergency managers quickly made plans to set up a temporary animal shelter at a second human shelter in the Cities of Gold Casino, but in the case of many temporary shelters, caring for domestic animals is a challenge. Separation from Fido and Fluffy adds to stress for evacuees and even prompts people to stay home even after officials advise them to leave.

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Gender issues a challenge for schools

Honored guests bow their heads in prayer during the Memorial Day service at the Santa Fe National Cemetery. PHOTOS BY KATHARINE EGLI/THE NEW MEXICAN

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By Martha Irvine

CHICAGO — From the time they are born, we put our boys in blue beanies and our girls in pink ones. It’s a societal norm, an expectation even, that you just are what you are born — a boy or a girl. From early on, we divide toys and activities by distinct gender lines, with superheroes and trucks and muck on one side, and princesses and dolls and all things frilly on the other. Many children land, enthusiastically, on the expected side. Others dabble in both “girl” and “boy” things. But what if your kid, even from an early age, mostly showed interest in doing opposite-gender things? More impor-

A small American flag, placed there by hundreds of volunteers, graced each of the 37,000 military gravestones in the cemetery. The military men and women buried at the site came from all parts of the country, many cultures, several religions and all political persuasions. They were all bound by a common solemn oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution and all it stands for, keynote speaker Brigadier Gen. Andrew Salas of the New Mexico Air National Guard told the crowd. Some things are worth fighting for, he said.

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Please see GENDER, Page A-5 A veteran holds his hand over his heart at the Memorial Day service at the cemetery Monday.

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Joy Kills Sorrow Americana ensemble, 7:30 p.m., Gig Performance Space, 1808-H Second St., $15 in advance at southwestrootsmusic.org, $18 at the door. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

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More than 100 sons and daughters of the United States gathered at the Santa Fe National Cemetery on Monday to honor thousands who had died in military service to the country. They walked among the white headstones marked with the births and deaths of soldiers, sailors, pilots and cavalrymen. They laid flowers by graves of loved ones. They touched tombstones, knelt and prayed, or simply stood in quiet revere.

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Most of the headstones carry a simple cross above the names of the servicemen and women. A few carry the Star of David. Many have no

symbol, leaving their religious beliefs unknown. Walk among enough of the white gravestones in Santa Fe or the other 130 national cemeteries, and one is bound to find the symbols for Sufis, Buddhists, Bahai, Muslim, Native Americans and even atheists. Each group has symbols approved for national cemetery gravestones by the National Cemetery Administration.

Indivisible … The wars we’ve fought as a nation divided and united us. The Civil War pitted two halves of the country against each other. Yet Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, was started

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War diary falls into proper hands nearly 70 years later Woman stumbles upon high school sweetheart’s gift to her in museum By Janet McConnaughey The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — Before Cpl. Thomas “Cotton” Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the Central Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his “last life request” to anyone who might find his diary: Please give it to Laura Mae Davis, the girl he loved. Davis did get to read the diary — but

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not until nearly 70 years later, when she saw it in a display case at the National World War II Museum. “I didn’t have any idea there was a diary in there,” said the 90-year-old Mooresville, Ind., woman. She said it brought tears to her eyes. Laura Mae Davis Burlingame — she married an Army Air Corps man in 1945 — had gone to the New Orleans museum on April 24 looking for a display commemorating the young Marine who had been her high school sweetheart. “I figured I’d see pictures of him and

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Editor: Rob Dean, 986-3033, rdean@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Kristina Dunham, kdunham@sfnewmexican.com

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Laura Mae Davis Burlingame, 90, displays a copy of the the World War II diary of Marine Cpl. Thomas ‘Cotton’ Jones, at her Indiana home last week. Burlingame originally gave the diary to Jones, but she didn’t know until she saw it in a museum that the diary had survived him. MICHAEL CONROY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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