Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted biweekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell …
At the base of the pier, people sat in a moderate row of chairs in preparation for our always small but intimate Memorial Day ceremony, which is also called the Lost At Sea Memorial. There might have been—some standing—a hundred of us. I sat in the back beside a man who might have been older than me, at 79.
Being at one of these events dredges up emotions you rarely face. All around you are people of various ages and backgrounds, and always those proudly wearing T-shirts or ball caps signifying where they served. But, sitting there, listening to the national anthem, and watching an elderly marine in full uniform regalia named Murphy read off an invocation and then a tribute to POW’s and MIA’s, I began to feel touched. Then the old marine began honoring all the branches of service, and when he started up with the army, and asked us to stand, and the army anthem was played, for the first time in my life, at such an occasion, I stood.
Then the old marine asked the “real men” of the marines to stand, and there was laughter, a few old marines stood, and their anthem was played. And so followed the Air Force and Coast Guard.
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