HAPPENINGS AT THE VANDERBURGH GOP

• Hoosiers over 65 and those with high-risk conditions should remain home.
• Lifting essential travel restrictions & allowing gatherings of 25 people
• Retail stores, shopping malls and commercial businesses can open at 50% capacity
• Restaurants can open at 50% capacity
• Personal services may also open by appointment only
• Office workers should continue working remotely, if possible.

There’s a folk song that was written back in the mid-1950s and hit the charts in the early-1960s titled, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.” It takes the listener from a point of flowers being picked by young girls who in turn eventually marry young men who become young soldiers that die in war and the graves that are decorated with flowers.

On Memorial Day we are obliged to show our reverence to those young American men who died in all of the early wars of our country’s history, and now also the young women who have paid the wages for freedom and liberty.

The white marble stones and crosses that stand eternally in cemeteries and places of honor in this country, and in foreign lands, with the names of the young, brave warriors who marched into war, held their positions in combat and whose courage overcame fear inspires us to recognize their sacrifices and respectfully as a nation say, “Thank you dear comrades; to you we are most grateful.”

As Americans we are bound to forever display our gratitude to those who truly define the word HERO. We thank our brothers and sisters who wear our country’s military uniforms and stand tall in the ranks, and we are grateful to our God who has blessed us with them.