Area ceremonies set for Memorial Day morning

The American Legion posts in Cape Girardeau and Jackson will hold Memorial Day services Monday, and the public is invited to attend.

The Cape Girardeau service begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Osage Community Centre and includes band performances. The Joint Veterans Council, not Post 63, as originally reported, is sponsoring the event.

Services in Jackson will begin at 9 a.m. at the entrance to the Jackson City Cemetery. The Jackson Municipal Band will perform, and the speaker will be Teresa Popp, an Air Force veteran from Jackson. A plaque, engraved with the names of about 240 local men who died in combat from World War I to the present, will be unveiled.

Post 158 will also place flags on the graves of about 1,100 veterans in Jackson.