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12A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2015 JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Bill Thomas, a Pearl Harbor survivor and Seaside resident, listens as Maureen Boggs sings “Amazing Grace” during the Memorial Day ceremony at the American Legion in Seaside. Memorial Day: ‘You’re a veteran, you’ve paid your due’ Continued from Page 1A A bit of history Seaside Elks’ Exalted Ruler Jerry Lounsbury gave a short history of Memorial Day, which was sparked in the mid-1860s in Waterloo, N.Y. — and possibly other locations — when volunteers would place Àowers on the gravesites of deceased veter- ans. Originally, he said, it was called “Decoration Day,” and on May 30, 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War, the ¿rst national ceremony was held at Arlington Nation- al Cemetery near Washing- ton, D.C. In 1971, the U.S. government made Memorial Day a federal holiday, to be observed on the last Monday in May. In Lounsbury’s opinion, making it a national holiday, and subsequently part of a three-day weekend, is “when some of the true meaning of Memorial Day was lost.” The holiday is about more than a chance for a miniature vacation, Lounsbury said. “It’s a great day to remem- ber,” he added. “Every day is a great day to remember our veterans and their families.” Mitch Miller, of Oregon’s Veterans of Foreign Wars de- partment, also paid tribute to “our American fallen,” who “humble Americans have gathered” to honor since the Civil War. “Every American owes a JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Maureen Boggs sings “Amazing Grace” during the Memo- rial Day ceremony at the American Legion in Seaside. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian A woman waves to Jay Pitman, sergeant-at-arms at American Legion Riders Chapter 99, as Pitman drives through Seaside as part of a Memorial Day motorcade. great debt to the courageous men and women who have selÀessly given their all to defend and protect our way of life,” he said. “And while giving back to the extent they deserve is impossible, cel- ebrating their memory and honoring their most selÀess deeds offers a start.” He thanked the approxi- mately 1.3 million members of the nation’s military who have fought to defend Amer- ican values and the daily free- doms citizens enjoy. “God bless our fallen, their families and those that live in uniforms in this world,” said Miller, himself a Vietnam War veteran who served several years in the 1960s. In Vietnam, he said, he saw many good service members fall, memories that still touch him. “It was no picnic,” he said. The war was lost, he added, but not by the soldiers. “We did our job. We got ’er done.” The ceremony Guest speaker Luke Thom- as, the Clatsop County Veter- ans’ service of¿cer, said he’s committed to helping veterans get the services and bene¿ts they deserve. He told the vet- erans in the audience to call him, even when they might believe another veteran needs his help more. “You’re a veteran, you’ve paid your due,” he said, add- ing the fallen soldiers who were being memorialized would want the living veter- ans to now receive what they deserve. Maureen Boggs, a mem- ber of the Seaside Ameri- can Legion Auxiliary, sang “The Star-Spangled Ban- ner,” “Amazing Grace” and “America, the Beautiful” for the ceremony. A member of Boy Scout Troop 642 led the crowd in the Pledge of Alle- giance. Kyrstin Crawford, a mem- ber of the legion’s Junior Auxiliary, served as Miss Poppy and handed out red re- membrance poppies, made by veterans, at the ceremony for donations. The Junior Aux- iliary members also passed them out in front of grocery stores and in other locations, and the donations go to veter- ans, Crawford said. After leading the crowd in the closing prayer, Chaplain Jere Mattila read “Flanders Field,” a poem written by John McCrae in May 1915 during World War I. The poem, which is the inspiration behind the traditional remem- brance poppies, reads: Reserve: ‘Each reserve is different, and they all come out of a different process’ Continued from Page 1A “None of them are equiva- lent to what we’re doing now,” she said. “Each reserve is dif- ferent, and they all come out of a different process. Each had a large stakeholder involvement, the conservationists proposed something, the ¿shermen pro- posed something, the state pro- posed something.” Parks in the ocean According to Gardner, ma- rine reserves are natural area parks in the ocean, established to protect wildlife and natu- ral resources, and to provide baseline scienti¿c monitoring to study as a living laborato- ry. “Marine reserves are about diversity of species, not just ¿sh, sea lions and seals, our bird species, our invertebrates. There are a wide variety of species that will bene¿t from the marine reserves.” The reserve is 12.6 square miles and runs a length of six miles, from Falcon Cove to the north end of Manzanita Beach. Most of the reserve’s shoreline is part of Oswald West State Park, which consists of 2,500 ,Q)ODQGHUV¿HOGVWKHSRS- SLHVEORZ %HWZHHQ WKH FURVVHV URZ RQURZ 7KDWPDUNRXUSODFH $QG LQ WKH VN\ WKH ODUNV VWLOOEUDYHO\VLQJLQJ )O\VFDUFHKHDUGDPLGWKH JXQVEHORZ :HDUHWKHGHDG 6KRUW GD\V DJR ZH OLYHG IHOWGDZQ 6DZVXQVHWJORZORYHGDQG ZHUHORYHG $QG QRZ ZH OLH LQ )ODQ- GHUV¿HOG 7DNH XS RXU TXDUUHO ZLWK WKHIRH 7R \RX IURP IDLOLQJ KDQGV ZHWKURZWKHWRUFK %H\RXUVWRKROGLWKLJK ,I \RX EUHDN IDLWK ZLWK XV ZKR GLH ZH VKDOO QRW VOHHS 7KRXJK SRSSLHV JURZ LQ )ODQGHUV¿HOGV Scenic vista at Arcadia Beach State Park. ONLINE Visit Facebook at http://on.fb.me/1LFvCRY or oregonmarinereserves.org. acres and is listed as the sec- ond most visited state park on the coast. According to Gardner, the reserve prohibits the removal of any living marine resource, including ¿sh, mussel or kelp. It is also protected from any ocean development. The west- ern marine protected area will allow only salmon line ¿sh- ing and crabbing. The Falcon Cove marine protected area allows only recreational line ¿shing. The area will be open to scuba diving, wildlife view- ing, sur¿ng and tidepooling. There are 20 seabird ponds and thousands of nesting birds which will bene¿t from the forest ¿shery protections in the reserve, she said. Wildlife includes bald eagles, pinnipeds and a wide variety of marine ¿sh. The public is urged to ac- cess the reserve by boat or by Oswald West Park. According to Gardner, the reserve’s development was funded by the Oregon Marine Reserve Partnership, with the participation of local groups including the Haystack Rock Awareness Project, North Coast Land Conservancy and others that proposed a variety of locations. “We even looked at going to Tillamook Head, having a reserve in front of Cannon Beach and connecting to an- other reserve at Cape Fal- con, but after years we ended up with this. But there were some compromises,” she said. “Originally we conceived a reserve that lined up with the Oswald West boundaries, but we shifted so that there was a wash rock that ¿shermen like to go to, which shifted the whole thing a little south. It now runs just south of the Arch Cape headlands.” “Our goal is to get people knowledgeable and involved, and participate in the process,” Gardner said. R.J. MARX — The Daily Astorian th Astoria, Oregon 2015 Tim May Josh Reynolds John Lawlor EZ Marc Jean Mann Prof Douglas Fraser Carl Allen ...and many others! WORKSHOPS for: tenor guitar mandolin & ukulele! Up to date details at: TenorGuitarFoundation.org * A Day & Evening of Tenor Guitars * Chicago tuning and ukulele day * Backstage Pass Concert * Tenor Guitar Luncheon * Playing on The Trolley * Play live on KMUN ..and more!