Proud to be American Ceremony at Military Cemetery, Mounds City, Illinois  

Saturday, May 28, 2011

  $53.00 per person

Includes: Coach; Lunch; Snacks; Driver’s tip and escort.

This special Memorial Day Observance held annually and well attended. A special way to express gratitude for those gone but not forgotten. Special activities will be experienced in this historic area, known as, “quiet acres.” We learn this cemetery honors the sacrifice of 9.000 veterans. Every episode of American war and peace since the Mexican-American is represented among those here in “quiet acres.” We tour the newly restored historic Care Takers Home and view a wonderful, informative film about this historic cemetery and the nearby historic Mounds City sites, where iron clad boats were made during the Civil War era. Also, the bell captured from a southern estate used to tell time for the workers at the boat site. A large military hospital was located here during the Civil War. This hospital was opened by our beloved and devoted Holy Cross Nuns. They later built and operated the well known St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo, IL. In past years a luncheon was offered at the Cairo VFW Hall in Cairo. I plan to have their luncheon unless their schedule is changed. Later motor home and reflect on the sights and scenes as we can appreciate that we are Proud to be an American.