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Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway.
"Local veterans march down Eagle's main street in the 1930 Memorial Day parade. Note that the Buchholz Livery is no longer in place. The businesses in the middle of the block (on the east side of Broadway) include a restaurant and the Eagle Valley Enterprise offices." -- Kathy Heicher, Early Eagle p.80...
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Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway.
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Photo postcard of the Memorial Day Parade at Eagle, Colorado, May 30, 1930. The colors followed by the American Legion are marching down Broadway, having made a left-hand turn from 2nd St. The E.E. Glennn store is the focal point.
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Members of American Legion, Eagle River Valley Post 150, Gypsum, Colorado, on Decoration Day, May 30, 1940. This may have taken place at Cedar Hill Cemetery.
[Photo printed May 30, 1940, Ping's Station, Eagle, Colo.]
After World War II, the name "Memorial Day" became more common. In June 28, 1968, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, making four national holidays three-day weekends. Memorial Day was one of these, now celebrated on the...
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Russell Beck, age 7, showing the poppies he was selling for Armistice/Remembrance/Veterans Day (Nov. 11) in 1939. The red poppy featured in the poem, In Flanders Fields, by Dr. John McCrae. The poppy as a symbol for the bloodshed in World War I was adopted by the National American Legion Conference in 1919 and the American Legion has been selling poppies on Nov. 11 ever since.
The photo bears a good example of fingerprint damage on the upper left...