Saline had its annual Memorial Day parade yesterday. But unlike so many past years, it did not come to Oakwood Cemetery. [1,2,3,4,5]
Ironically, the present deep-dig Michigan Avenue reconstruction is serving to increase cemetery visibility.
Mature trees with formidable trunks and expansively shading canopes of leaves were significantly cut back along its north border abutting the thoroughfare. Eastbound traffic coming into the City of Saline on US-12 is shunted off onto Monroe Street, creating an further encircling and opportunity to view hallowed grave sites.
The 2016 MDOT reconstruction of Michigan Avenue is unquestionably necessary and the time for it is now. We have great expectations for what it will bring to our community in 2017 and for many years to come. [6]
But just as we must pull together in support of local businesses which will inevitably bear the greatest brunt of this project economically, so too we are committed to doing what we can to promote all Saline treasures here.
Thus Saline Journal chose to make the trek to Oakwood Cemetery at 10:00am yesterday, Memorial Day 2016, undeterred, and captured the photograph above. We are looking forward to a Memorial Day 2017 that returns to this place.
In the meantime— let us continue to remember those who have given so much for the United States of America in each of the days between now and then.
References
- “Memorial Day History” US Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs.
- “Memorial Day” History.
- “Memorial Day Meaning” All About History.
- US Memorial Day (home page).
- Air National Guard, 127th Wing (home page).
- “US-12 (Michigan Avenue) Reconstruction: City of Saline” (January 2016) Michigan Department of Transportation.
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