Pat Scanlon, a Vietnam veteran, joined Boryana Tacconi, of Andover, as she threw a flower into Boston Harbor as part of a Memorial Day tribute during the Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak out gathering at Christopher Columbus Park in Boston.
(Globe Staff Photo / Yoon S. Byun)
Honor the dead, work for future peace, speakers say
Pat Scanlon, a Vietnam veteran, joined Boryana Tacconi, of Andover, as she threw a flower into Boston Harbor as part of a Memorial Day tribute during the Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak out gathering at Christopher Columbus Park in Boston.
(Globe Staff Photo / Yoon S. Byun)
On the holiday set aside to remember the nation's war dead, an event called a Memorial Day for Peace tends to attract people of a particular political stripe, which Jeff Key knew yesterday as he spoke to a crowd gathered next to Boston Harbor. (Full article: 604 words)
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