The Skokie Fire Department’s honor guard marched up an aisle between rows of spectators, their ceremonial axes glistening silver, to start Skokie’s Memorial Day ceremony Monday.
Dan Ryan, a Navy veteran who served as Skokie’s finance director in the 1980s, told a story at the village’s Memorial Day ceremony Monday of his father’s World War II service.
When Ryan’s father, who had served in World War II, was alive the two traveled to the National World War II museum in New Orleans, which in 2014 had a special exhibit on Higgins boats, Ryan said, describing the vessels as those in which the front half opens up to let troops storm out. “They had a book where veterans could write their remembrances of Higgins boats,” Ryan said, adding he was surprised to see his father writing in it, since he had never previously mentioned anything about the subject. He later peeked at what his father’s entry.
The moment of solemnity continued as a Niles North High School student sang the national anthem and the Skokie Police honor guard marched to a grassy area behind the speakers and performed a rifle salute.
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