The USAT Dorchester was transporting troops across the Atlantic during World War II. A group of men were playing cards when one of them called out to Chaplain John P. Washington. “Bless my hand, father!” the soldier pleaded.
After the traditional Veterans Day observance at the monument opposite Town Hall, veterans walked to the middle school for a photograph at the Flags for Heroes display.
Every year, on the Saturday before Memorial Day, a volunteer from American Legion Post 353 trudges up White Horse Mountain and places flags at the graves of Civil War veterans. Except for the annual visit,