Remembering those who served

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May 26, 2017 - 12:00 AM

MORAN — Early Friday morning five volunteers met at the little cemetery outside Moran. When they left, 83 flags fluttered in the late-spring breeze, where before there were none. The project — to color the rural graveyard’s center aisle in red, white and blue for Memorial Day — was a joint effort between Moran’s American Legion, the Sons of the American Legion, and the Marmaton Masonic Lodge.

Among this clutch of patriotic mensches was Willis Ross. Ross, 96 years old but as limber as a willow switch, moved from spot to spot, bending…

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