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Article: BUCKS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS KICK OFF MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WITH WORLD WAR I FOUNTAIN CEREMONY OF REMEMBRANCE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 25, 2007
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Bucks County issued the following press release:
The Board of Bucks County Commissioners joined a contingent of Armed Forces veterans this morning to recognize Memorial Day. During the ceremony, which took place at the corner of Broad and Main Sts. just outside the Bucks County Courthouse, Commissioner Chairman Charles H. Martin activated the county's historic World War I Memorial Fountain.
Before the water flowed from the fountain that originally was installed on May 30, 1922, Martin and commissioner colleagues James F. Cawley, Esq. and Sandra A. Miller reflected on the significance of Memorial Day, a holiday that has particular relevance to all Bucks Countians in light of the recent ...