(Spirit Lake)– ( Click here for sounds from ceremony ). Those were just some of the sounds from the annual Memorial Day program held Monday on the Veteran’s Memorial Plaza on the northeast side of the Dickinson County Courthouse in Spirit Lake.
Major Melanie Englert, Special Assistant to the Chief of Outreach, addressed the crowd of several hundred people…(click here for excerpt from Englert’s speech.)
Englert, who’s based at the U.S. Strategic Command at Offut Air Force base in Omaha, told the crowd there’s a lot we can do to uphold the freedom that many have sacrificed their lives for…(click here for excerpt from Englert’s speech.).
Sam Anderson served as Grand Marshall of the annual Memorial Day parade in Spirit Lake, which followed the program.
