ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Manchester: The American Legion Post 113 held its Veterans Day ceremony at its headquarters on Friday morning and also held a flag burning ceremony to properly retire old flags. Also on hand was the trio Purpose from Lynn. Legion members Tom Cockfield, left, and Paul Sullivan were among the veterans, along with family and friends, on hand for the ceremonies.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Manchester: The American Legion Post 113 held its Veterans Day ceremony at its headquarters on Friday morning and also held a flag burning ceremony to properly retire old, tattered flags. From left to right are Sgt.-at-Arms Charles Hunt, Troop 3 Boy Scouts Thomas Ambrose, Tyler Rossi and Alex Shepard, and Sgt.-at-Arms for the state commander.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Manchester: The American Legion Post 113 held its Veterans Day ceremony at its headquarters on Friday morning and also held a flag burning ceremony to properly retire old flags. Also on hand was the trio Purpose, of Lynn. From left are Mike Ward, Kenneth Scurry and Mack Raye. They sang patriotic songs during the ceremonies.
Joan Roberts of Rockport sits in her home and holds up a picture of her late uncle, Eugene Eberhardt, a Machinist's Mate First Class in the US Navy, who perished on the USS Oaklahoma when it sank at Pearl Harbor during WWII. She is waiting for the Navy to identify Eberhardt's body, which was buried in a mass grave at the end of 1942. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times Nov. 9, 2011
Joan Roberts of Rockport stands in her home and holds up a picture of her late uncle, Eugene Eberhardt, a Machinist's Mate First Class in the US Navy, who perished on the USS Oaklahoma when it sank at Pearl Harbor during WWII. She is waiting for the Navy to identify Eberhardt's body, which was buried in a mass grave at the end of 1942. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times Nov. 9, 2011
Joan Roberts of Rockport sits in her home and holds up a picture of her late uncle, Eugene Eberhardt, a Machinist's Mate First Class in the US Navy, who perished on the USS Oaklahoma when it sank at Pearl Harbor during WWII. She is waiting for the Navy to identify Eberhardt's body, which was buried in a mass grave at the end of 1942. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times Nov. 9, 2011
Preschoolers Campbell Berglund, left, and Austin Story test their strength and expend their energy as they push a large plastic cube towards each other in the playground of Rockport Elementary Sccool on Wendesday morning. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times Nov. 9, 2011
Henry Chadbourne, 4, chases his sister, Cecilia, 2, with a stick at Front Beach on Wednesday morning. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times Nov. 9, 2011
Lucy May Whelsky, 2, of Rockport enjoys the sand at Front Beach on Wednesday morning. Jesse Poole/Gloucester Daily Times Nov. 9, 2011
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Manchester: The American Legion Post 113 held its Veterans Day ceremony at its headquarters on Friday morning and also held a flag burning ceremony to properly retire old flags. Also on hand was the trio Purpose from Lynn. Legion members Tom Cockfield, left, and Paul Sullivan were among the veterans, along with family and friends, on hand for the ceremonies.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Manchester: The American Legion Post 113 held its Veterans Day ceremony at its headquarters on Friday morning and also held a flag burning ceremony to properly retire old flags. Also on hand was the trio Purpose from Lynn. Legion members Tom Cockfield, left, and Paul Sullivan were among the veterans, along with family and friends, on hand for the ceremonies.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. Manchester: The American Legion Post 113 held its Veterans Day ceremony at its headquarters on Friday morning and also held a flag burning ceremony to properly retire old flags. Also on hand was the trio Purpose from Lynn. Legion members Tom Cockfield, left, and Paul Sullivan were among the veterans, along with family and friends, on hand for the ceremonies.
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