Paying Respects

As Legion Post #45 goes through the steps to re-form in Sundance, potential members and volunteers gathered on Memorial Day to perform the traditional duty of caring for the graves of veterans in local cemeteries around the county.

Under the interim commandership of Phil Colozzi, Sundance's American Legion Post is in the process of reorganizing and launching anew and is actively seeking members as it rebuilds. According to Colozzi, caring for the graves of local veterans is one of the most important acts of service performed by Legion members.

Below, volunteer and veteran Jim Pridgeon attends to Mt. Moriah Cemetery in Sundance on Memorial Day, here seen placing a flag on the oldest military grave in the cemetery belonging to a soldier born in 1837 who fought in the Mexican American War and came west to Sundance around the turn of the 20th century.