Bullets in Midair!

Memorial Day Honor Guard Salute

The parade route on Memorial Day leads directly to Crystal Lake State Park for a memorial service for our fallen sailors and soldiers. In the photo above, the Honor Guard is saluting those special Americans with volleys from their guns. I purposefully tried to capture the bullets in air when they shot. And I did it! Below is a cropped section of this photo showing two of the bullets in the air.

Bullets in Midair

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Scenes from the Memorial Day Parade in Barton

Barton's Veterans

"God bless our troops."

Lake Region Union High School band

One of Barton's fire trucks

Barton's tanker truck

Orleans Fire Department

Orleans tanker truck

Westmore Fire & Rescue

Westmore's Engine 1

Glover Ambulance

Memorial Day in Barton Set

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The Billy Buskin (The Horse) Civil War Memorial

What's the story - Wilmot Civil War memorial
Author(s): MARGOT SANGER-KATZ
Date: December 18, 2006
Page: B01 / Section: Local/State

WALKERS IN WILMOT Flat may notice an unusual Civil War memorial. Alongside the former Chase Farm lies a plaque dedicated to an equine veteran of that war. Billy Buskin, a horse who lived to the unusual age of 30, was buried here by his owner.

Capt. Francis Chase, who rode Billy Buskin throughout the war, was a wagon master of an ammunition train during the war, according to Florence Langley's history of Wilmot, Glimpse of the Past.

Chase originally asked for special permission to bury his companion with the Chase family in the town's Pine Hill Cemetery, said Barbara Sanborn, a town historical society member and a member of the bicentennial committee that created the monument. The cemetery said no, so Chase buried Buskin near his home.

Descendents of Chase donated the plot to the town in 1973, along with the nearby plot where Chase's dog, Captain, rests.

MARGOT SANGER-KATZ

Copyright 2005 Concord Monitor

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