Dell Davis posted on May 23, 2023 12:03
The City of Wagoner offices will be closed for Memorial Day on 29th.
Emergency Services will remain open.
City offices will reopen on Tuesday, May 30th at 8:30a.
Note: Families may begin placing Memorial Day (Decoration Day) Flowers at Wagoner Cemeteries beginning May 25th. Flowers will need to be picked up before June 4th in order for personel to maintain mowing and other needed maintenance. If you have any questions in regards to what items can be placed on graves-please call 918-485-2554. Please note: No fencing, benches, or flower beds allowed.
Thank you!
Don't miss the American Legion Post 153 Special Memorial Day Observance at 10a. Monday, May 29th
at the Wagoner County Courthouse.
Have a safe Memorial Day as we remember those who served our country
and gave the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae was a poet, physician (surgeon), author and serving soldier during World War I.. On May 3, 1915 he composed the poem Flanders Field ,while setting in the back of a medical ambulance after the death and funeral of a close friend. HIs friend was buried in the field with a simple white cross and hundreds of red poppies blooming.
The red poppy has become an international symbol of Memorial Day.