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Ten Years Ago

June 2, 2005

Seven years ago, young Trevor Johnson bugled Taps at the first Memorial Day observance which he and his father, Mark, helped organize. Now Johnson, dressed in desert camouflage and beret, has returned from a one-year tour in Iraq, and he was the honored speaker at the ceremony last Monday.

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when FFA Advisor Scott Branson was presented with the gold officer’s chain that had been proudly worn by Amanda McKinley Morton during her year as State Reporter. Branson bid an emotional farewell to the Waitsburg FFA Chapter as he stepped...