World War II veteran Helen Anderson Glass, 90, wipes a tear off her face during a Memorial Day ceremony at Evergreen Mortuary & Cemetery in Tucson, Ariz. Glass, who presented her poem “Memorial Day Remember Me,” served as an aviation machinist mate, second class.


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