For the past five years, my sister and I have driven my Aunt Jean to the veteran's cemetery in the San Joaquin Valley where her husband and son are buried and where she will be buried when she passes. This year they were honoring the USAF during the ceremonies with the above program and the appearance of an Air Force honor guard and the Air Force Golden West Brass Quintet that played musical numbers throughout the ceremonies.
We leave her house by 8:00 AM and arrive at the cemetery usually well before the ceremonies begin, typically at 11:00 AM, though they were delayed again this year because of traffic. We stop at the same rest stop along the way, and after we have placed flowers and flags at the various graves, we usually have a late lunch at Andersen's Split Pea restaurant by the freeway exit and entrance.
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