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Sutherland veteran to speak at Hartley service

Program planned Monday morning at Pleasant View Cemetery

Memorial Day services will return to form next Monday at Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley.

Last year's ceremony was held at the Hartley Community Center, where patrons were restricted to listening to the program on their car radios due to social distancing protocol. Things are back to normal this year, as the service will once again be held at the cemetery.

Duane Jalas, of Sutherland, will deliver the keynote address. The retired pastor served in the Army during the Vietnam War. He was injured during the Tet Offensive in 1968 and was forced to spend 14 months recovering in Brooke Army Hospita...