Memorial Day 2018: Brookfield Parade, Ceremony Times, Locations

BROOKFIELD, WI — Memorial Day is Monday, May 28. For some, Memorial Day is an extra day off of work filled with family gatherings, an outdoor celebration or a chance to get that garden or landscaping work done.

But for all of us, Memorial Day is exactly that, a day set aside to honor the memories of friends, family and loved ones who lost their lives serving our country in the armed forces.

Brookfield Ceremony

Brookfield's 2018 Memorial Day ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the Historic Oak Hill Cemetery, 3500 N. Brookfield Road.

The ceremony includes live patriotic music and a rifle salute.

The ceremony is hosted by Behling-Kutchera American Legion Post 296, the Oak Hill Cemetery Association, the Elmbrook Historical Society, Brookfield Academy and Boy Scout Troop 71.

Honors will be given to Nathan Hatch, a Revolutionary War veteran buried at Oak Hill.

Nathan Hatch was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts on Nov. 16, 1757, and served as a private for 16 months with four different regiments of the Continential Army during the Revoluntary War.

He enlisted again in the War of 1812, and was put in charge of recruitment duties. The regiment with Nathan Hatch and other Revolutionary War veterans was known as the Silver-Grays in the War of 1812.

Then when he was about 85 years old, Nathan Hatch and two of his sons, Nathan Jr. and Edmund, moved west to the Wisconsin territory. It was 1842, six years before Wisconsin achieved statehood. They settled on farmlands north of Capitol Drive where Stonewood Village now lies.

Elm Grove Parade

The 71st annual Elm Grove Memorial Day Parade starts at 10:30 a.m. at the Legion Drive entrance of Elm Grove Park.

The parade travels north on Legion Drive, east on Elmhurst Parkway, south on Church Street, west on Watertown Plank Road, south on Elm Grove Road and ends at Wall Street.

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