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Myers receives Quilt of Valor at Fayette Memorial Day ceremony

Justin Addison, Editor/Publisher
Posted 5/30/23

U.S. Navy Air Force veteran Harold Myers was the recipient of the Quilt of Valor, presented by the Fayette Peacemakers Quilters during Fayette’s annual Memorial Day ceremony Sunday afternoon on …

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Myers receives Quilt of Valor at Fayette Memorial Day ceremony

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U.S. Navy Air Force veteran Harold Myers was the recipient of the Quilt of Valor, presented by the Fayette Peacemakers Quilters during Fayette’s annual Memorial Day ceremony Sunday afternoon on the courthouse square.

The Peacemakers group is a registered member of the International Quilts of Valor Foundation, which has awarded 345,685 quilts to date. Since 2001, the Peacemakers have awarded 70 quilts to local veterans. 

“It’s not just something we ladies decided to start making,” Quilter Connie Shay said during Sunday’s ceremony.

Glasgow resident J. Y. Miller delivered a moving keynote address that included the history of Memorial Day and an emotional recitation of “In Flanders Fields”. 

A U. S. Army veteran who served in Vietnam, he is a Central Methodist graduate and retired teacher. He achieved the rank of Major during his military service, later served in the U.S. Army Reserves, and is a member of the American Legion Post 211 in Glasgow, and the Sons of the American Revolution.

Memorial Day is “a day designed to honor those who gave their lives while serving,” he said. “This is their day.”

Miller explained that enjoying the pleasures of the three-day weekend on such a solemn holiday of remembrance is just one way of honoring what our men and women fought for, but encouraged those in attendance to honor our nation’s roughly 1.5 million war dead with a minute of silence at 3 p.m. on Monday afternoon, as detailed in the National Moment of Remembrance Act.

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