Byline: Dennis Shaughnessey
Oct. 9--LOWELL -- A light drizzle fell on the first cold day in October.
Folks who had gathered at the annual Day of Remembrance jumped slightly as an honor guard fired off a 21-gun salute. A bugler played Taps. Twelve-year-old Alexandrea LaFontaine of Dracut sang "God Bless America," and a wreath was placed on a plaque marking the fallen soldiers from Massachusetts who died in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Moments before, inside the Centralville Social Club in Lowell, the names of the war dead were read. The sound of a lone bell pealed after the reading of each name.
"I cry a lot," said Sue Boule of Dracut ...