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Memorial Day Activities
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Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble monument to the memory of the dead of the Spanish-American War and World Wars I and II.
May 30, 1952
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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