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Memorial Day 2023

Yesterday I had the honor of presenting a wreath at the annual Memorial Day Service at the American Legion Post 279. The men and women of the Post, the Auxiliary and the SAL did a wonderful job of celebrating and remembering the lives of those who sacraficed their lives in service of our county and those who survived the horrors of war.

While you are celebrating this Memorial Day Monday and enjoying this amazing weather, please take a moment to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the ideals of our great country and all those who have proudly served.

On behalf of myself, the Borough Council and all of our dedicated town employees I want to wish you a Happy Memorial Day.

Mayor David Runfeldt

Below are the famous words spoken by our town's namesake, President Abraham Lincoln.
These words have always been the reason why we celebrate this day and honor those who serve.

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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln