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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif";color:#00B050">INVITATION TO OUR VETERAN STUDENTS AND YOUR FAMILIES<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">The Ironton Memorial Day Parade, which is the longest, continuously running Memorial Day Parade in the United States,
will be on Monday, May 30<sup>th</sup>, 2016. The theme for this year’s parade is<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif";color:#00B050">“FOR OUR NATION, FOR US ALL”.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">We would love to have you and your families join us in this tribute that is “for you”.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">We value and appreciate your service beyond words.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">We value and appreciate you as students.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">I value the opportunity to work with you and get to know you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">Please consider joining us and the Ohio University Southern’s parade unit.</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">
You can ride on the float with your children. You can wear your uniform and walk with us. You could ride in the Bobcat mobile!! Graduates could wear their graduation stoles. You can join us in any way that works for you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">The parade usually begins with the “Riderless Horse”. This is quite a moving experience thinking about all of the
service men and women that we have lost throughout our history.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US AND HELP US CELEBRATE YOUR SERVICE.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Heavy","sans-serif"">P.S. When I was little we walked in the Memorial Day Parade every year with our school. We all took a big bouquet of fresh flowers that were collected at
a certain location. They were then taken to Woodland Cemetary and put on the veteran’s graves. Tha is a memory that I have never forgotten. I would be honored to walk with you. Let me know if you plan to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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