Families and friends gathered on a dreary Memorial Day morning at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Fort Worth to remember those who died while serving the U.S. Armed Forces.
United States flags were placed in every view, lining the path down cemetery roads. Attendees were robed in red, white and blue, as well as Army, Navy and Air Force attire. Weather tolerated the outdoor service as rain sprinkled minutes before 10 a.m., the start time, and stopped as all sang “The Star Spangled Banner.”
The crowd gathered around the “Doughboy statue,” which originally unveiled before the first ever Fort Worth Memorial Day Service in 1930. The statue represents a traditional World War I American infantry soldier and a modern American infantryman.
Mayor Mattie Parker, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare and Capt. Beau Hufstetler, commander at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, all gave remarks, reminding the audience that they live in the “best country, state and city in the world” because of the soldiers who put their lives at stake…