Planet Planning: Memorial Day Parade Beverly, Morgan Park, Mount Greenwood

Fun to watch the Memorial Day Parade back in my old neighborhood in the south side of Chicago.

The parade kicked off from 110th and Longwood Drive and proceeded north. The Color Guard was from 2/24, the Marine Infantry Battalion on the west side of Chicago. I marched in a parade on Longwood Drive leading a platoon of Marines in 1973. I spotted my MPHS Russian teacher Miss Petrus. We were trained to greet her, so I belted out
Strastvooey te, Soyia Sergeevna, a kok vi pushaviatee!!

Soyia Sergeevna frantically looked around trying to find who was calling her, clearly one of her former students. But she did not see me and I had to keep marching in front of the platoon. Dosvedanya, Soyia Sergeevna.

Click to see the Video of The Jesse White Tumblers

The Model A Roadster above looks like the Model A Roadster I drove on Longwood Drive to MPHS in 65, although the one in the photo is in much better condition.

My Model A at modelahullinger.blogspot.com

Click for a Bagpipe Video

My personal favorite - this bus from Smith Village carried a number of World War II and Korean Veterans, including my father Clif Hullinger.

Video Introductions of the Smith Village Veterans

More about Clif's service in North Africa and Italy at:

hullingerwwII.blogspot.com

109thengineers34thdivision.blogspot.com

The group above are the Southsiders for Peace. They were on the sidewalk and told us they had been prevented from marching in the parade

southsidersforpeace.org

The dance group below showing some energetic moves.

I'm getting in just under the wire here for this holiday-related blog,
which deals in part with the Memorial Day Parade down Longwood Drive. I'd love to hear what memories of that event others have, to see how they do or don't jibe with my own.

Thanks to all who have served, and absolute gratitude to those who paid for our freedoms with their lives.

Taffy Cannon, June '66
Carlsbad, California

Click below to read a blog post written by Taffy about Decoration Day:

thaliapressauthors.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/decoration-day

Patrick Butler RIP

Patrick Butler - Teacher at Morgan Park

It is so nice that he attended MP’s class of 1962 50th Reunion.

Correspondence here is from two members of that class Lois Radakovtiz Lemon

and Barbara Stevenson Spencer (Tex) Bailey.

Thought I’d pass it on in case any of you remember.

The pictures are from their 50th reunion. Link to obituary also.

Nan Brennan

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Lois Lemon"
Subject: Patrick Butler
Date: May 25, 2014 at 9:19:16 AM CDT

It is with a sad heart that I pass along the email I got from Barb Stevenson Bailey this morning…….

The pictures attachments were taken two years ago at our 50^th reunion. Wish there were more

Eternal Rest Grant to him O Lord….
Good morning everyone! I opened the Tribune this morning and found the obituary of Pat Butler. I went past his house the other day and thought,

I really ought to see how he is. For anyone interested in going, the wake is
Visitation: Tuesday May 27, 2014 at Curley funeral Home, 6116 West 111th St , Chicago Ridge. Its just east side of Ridgeland.

Funeral: Wednesday from Curley Funeral Home to St. Christina Church ,111th & Homan and Holy Sepulcher Cemetery.
What a great man with a wonderful sense of humor. I know how old he was , he still should have lived forever.