From pg. 2 of The Telegraph, 31 May 1989.
It has been 36 years since Earl Tyler was killed in the Korean War when the Army truck in which he was riding overturned.
But his mother, Margaret Tyler of Nashua, has not forgotten him.
Tyler publicly remembers Earl twice a year, at ceremonies on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. On Tuesday, Tyler and other mothers of sons killed in military service sat as guests of honor at the top of the steps leading to City Hall as Mayor James Donchess, veterans, and high school bands lauded their sons and others like them.
Privately, Tyler says she remembers Earl "all the time."
"You don't get over it," said Tyler, whose husband and four other sons also served in the military.
Sitting with Tyler during Tuesday's Memorial Day ceremonies were Cecilia Lemieux, whose son Roger died in World War II when lightning struck his airplane. Rosalie Leaor, whose son Walter died in Korea and Genevieve DeCapot, whose son Francis was the first Nashuan to die in Korea.
"We all are proud of them," DeCapot said.
"Shall we never forget in our prayers and in our hearts the gallant men who gave their lives in service to their country," said Albert Biron, speaker of the day, who from the steps to City Hall also encouraged the government to support veterans hospitals. Biron served with the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific during World War II.
The brief morning ceremony followed a parade from Library Hill to City Hall.
Participating in the parade were veterans, police officers, firefighters, sheriffs, elected officials, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, high school bands, members of the armed forces, and military equipment. Along Main Street, businesses emptied, workers leaned out of second story windows, and children sat on curbs waving U.S. flags to cheer the marchers on.
Perhaps the best seats for the parade were held by Jane and Bill Quigley of Brookline and their sons Billy, 4, and Jonathan, 2, and their 6-year-old nephew Sam.
The Quigleys had arrived downtown an hour early and grabbed a parking space in the lot near the intersection of Canal and Main streets. They parked their pickup truck with its rear facing Main Street, and then set up lawn chairs in the bed of the truck.
"I like the music best," Billy said as he bounced excitedly up and down from one end of the truck to the other.
Ricki Ann Philbrick, 9, of Nashua watched the parade from Library Hill, where she sat in a wheelchair recovering from knee surgery.
She said Memorial Day is to "thank people for fighting for our country." Her favorite part of the parade was the Londonderry High School Band, which had marched past in patriotic red, white and blue uniforms.
Brad Bonn, 10, had a slightly different idea about what Memorial Day is all about.
"It means being nice to someone, considering them before yourself, It's about loyalty," said Brad, who brought up the rear of the parade as part of Cub Scout Pack 250. Brad was carrying a white flag with a green tree on it, the significance of which "nobody knows," he said.
Josie Gibbons, 9, marched for the second year in a row with Brownie Troop 76 from Sunsets Heights Elementary School.
She summed up Memorial Day with one word: "Freedom."
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