THE PRINT EDITION
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2018
VOLUME XIX- ISSUE 61
“A Year to Remember … “
Memorial Day is this weekend. Plan to come to the Fitzgerald Post (725 East Fourth) on Sunday morning, May 27, at 9 a.m. There’ll be a solemn wreath-laying at South Boston’s Vietnam Memorial, followed by a Brunch at the Post And please remember that the Year 2018 A.D. (or C.E., if you wish) is a truly a major Anniversary year. It is time to recall South Boston’s past events, especially those which occurred an exact, round number of years back – such as 50, 100, or even 200 years ago. Start with Memorial Day itself. Exactly 150 years ago, in 1868, General John A. Logan, the Commanderin-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, formally declared that Memorial Day would take place each year on May 30. It was called “Decoration Day” back then, because summer flowers were planted around Civil War veterans’ graves. In the North, Decoration Day probably first began in Waterloo, New York, a key stop on the Underground Railway into Canada. One hundred years ago, in 1918, the Armistice was signed on November 11 at 11 a.m., formally ending World War I –
“The War to End All Wars”. Remember: 103 South Bostonians gave their lives in that war, including the legendary Mickey Perkins. And remember that we were then afflicted with the so-called Spanish influenza, a true pandemic that may have started at a U.S. Army base in Arkansas. The flu killed far more people than the 20 million who died in World War I. And please remember more recent history. In 1968, 50 years ago, the Tet Offensive opened its bloody jaws in Vietnam. South Boston’s Vietnam Memorial in Medal of Honor Park at M Street was the first of its kind in the entire nation. In South Boston, we remember! Now let’s go back 200 years to 1818. Father Francis Anthony Matignon, the first parish priest for all of New England, died here in Boston on September 19, 1818. Bishop Cheverus broke ground that same year for Fr. Matignon’s memorial, where he is buried - the historic St. Augustine Chapel and Cemetery at Dorchester and Sixth Streets. South Boston plans to observe that 200th Anniversary in September, but your help and funding support is needed. Please help us remember! And this year of 2018 is the
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125th Anniversary of their church for the parishioners of Our Lady of Czestochowa, a pillar of South Boston since 1893. Congratulations and best wishes for another 125. In 1768, 250 years ago, the British military first occupied Boston. Among colonials planning to defy the Crown was Paul Revere, who courted his wife, Sary, with seaside picnics in what was later to become South Boston. Revere assumed command of Castle Island and Fort William in South Boston during our Revolution; he died almost exactly 200 years ago, on May 10, 1818. We will repeat that major observances are planned for this coming fall. Over the weekend of September 15, a rededication and celebration of
the St. Augustine Chapel’s 200th Anniversary is being planned. South Boston Online also hears that many of the veterans’ posts intend to have events on Armistice/Veterans’ Day, Sunday, November 11. We’ll need your help in doing all of this – your efforts, your contributions, and most important of all, your attendance at these observances. So please plan to take part in all these observances yourself. The great 20th Century American philosopher George Santayana, himself an immigrant like so many of us, coined a famous saying, “Those who cannot recall the past are condemned to repeat it.” Please help South Boston remember our own past in 2018, so we can move on with greater energy to 2030. Thank you.
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