Word: hometownã
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...Washington’s Birthday—two of the other holidays the Uniform Holidays Bill shifted to Mondays—Veterans’ Day had become disassociated from its namesake, and had irrevocably become associated instead with brief vacations and department store sales. This is why my hometown??€™s parade feels insufficient: it is too modest a recognition of veterans on the day that bears their name, too brief an interval before we rush to the mall to take advantage of holiday sales...
...hometown??€™s Veterans’ Day parade is a poignant affair, like a Norman Rockwell painting without quite enough people to fill the frame. It is sparsely attended—my coastal town’s population shrinks drastically in the off-season—and as the high school band director eschews John Philip Sousa unfestive music in minor keys ricochets between the shuttered storefronts. There seem to be fewer veterans every year. Their absence is poorly disguised by the addition of more boy scouts. Bystanders shift from foot to foot, filling the gaps between cub scout...
Joyce E. Jauer ’05 always knew she was going to be a debutante. More than that, she dreamed of being the reigning debutante of the San Antonio Fiesta, her hometown??€™s 10-day historical and cultural celebration...
...Club, in person she admits she is most proud of her less concrete accomplishments. She says she is happy that after two and a half years at Harvard she has maintained her wits, stayed sane and done proud her mom and the citizens of her hometown??€”Martinsville...