Eyes on Carson City: Days to remember
Memorial Day in Carson City is never just a single day event.
Here in the Nevada state capital, it takes four days to make things right for the service men and women buried here who have served and sacrificed over the years.
Beginning Friday, dozens of Carson City locals participated in the traditional flag planting at veteran grave sites in Lone Mountain, Empire and Stewart cemeteries, as well as the two veteran graves behind Fuji Park and even Pioneer Cemetery on the west end of Fifth Street at the base of C Hill where U.S. Army Maj. William Ormsby is buried.
Weekend-long events celebrating heroes and their contributions to our local, state and national heritage included train rides aboard historic Nineteenth Century steam engines at the Nevada State Railroad Museum, which held its grand reopening Saturday following four months of repairs to the property caused by January flood damage.
Memorial Day weekend culminated with Monday observances and ceremonies honoring the military dead at rest in Carson City.
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