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Hurld School Students, Families, Mark Memorial Day With School Program
Marine Corps veteran Michael Mulrenan spoke; younger students sang.
Wearing red, white and blue headbands and standing next to the flag pole in front of their school, students in the three youngest grades sang patriotic songs like “God Bless America” and “This Is My Country.”
Veteran Michael Mulrenan, who served in the Marine Corps from 1975 through 1979 and sits on the School Committee, spoke briefly.
The held its traditional Memorial Day program Wednesday afternoon. Other schools also hold Memorial Day programs.
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Memorial Day honors military personnel who died in war while serving their country, Hurld fifth-grader Isabelle Claude told students in grades kindergarten through five, and an audience of about 50 adults, including teachers, who gathered in the sun.
There will be no school on Monday, Memorial Day, Mulrenan told the crowd after asking people to recognize and applaud veterans.
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, Mulrenan said. As the flag goes by, he told them to take off their hats or caps and put their hands over their hearts.
Ted Fleming stood in the audience during the ceremony. His three sons served their country, he said: two in the Navy, one in the Air Force. Two of his grandchildren attend the Hurld School: Travis, in third grade and Evan, in first grade. Their younger brother, Caden, will join them in a year.
Travis, Evan and Caden’s mom, Amy, and dad, Peter, who is Ted Fleming’s son, met in the Air Force, Ted Fleming pointed out.
The senior Fleming, 72 and a Woburn native, always comes to the Memorial Day ceremony at the Hurld, he said.
After the 20-minute ceremony, students returned to their classrooms.
Three fifth-graders offered their opinions on what Memorial Day means. Luke Scaramozzino said the day honors people who served in the Army and Air Force. All of them said they did not know any veterans.
Only Luke said he sometimes goes to the city’s Memorial Day parade. He likes the volleys fired by color guard rifles most, he said, and the second.
While parents gathered outside the school for its Memorial Day program, a handful said they won’t be going to the Memorial Day parade. Jared Fishlin, whose daughter is in kindergarten at the Hurld, said he’d spend Memorial Day doing yard work. Another parent said she would enjoy a cookout. One mom said she didn’t know there was a Memorial Day parade and ceremonies at two cemeteries here Monday morning.
