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Columnist P.J. Savage writes about the cases that haunt police officers throughout their careers. Page A3.

Police officer Dee Brown has retired after 25 years on the force. Details on page A3.

Remember when Lititz had a White House connection? Elmer Bobst visits his hometown this week in 1973. See Out of the Past on page A9.

Find your favorite senior from Warwick, Lititz Christian, Manheim Central and Homeschool on pages A16-21 and B8.

By:

GARY P. KLINGER Record Express Correspondent

, Staff Writer

Photo by Mike Shullâ?©An old soldier marches on in memory of fallen comrades from wars long ago.

Memorial Day may mean different things to different people, but there was a focus in downtown Lititz Monday morning.

The annual parade along Broad and Main streets, and the service in God’s Acre at the Moravian Cemetery is a revered event. Rear Admiral Janice Hamby would like to see the focus go beyond the day.

Hamby, a deputy chief information officer for the Secretary of Defense and this year’s Memorial Day speaker in Lititz and Rothsville, urged the crowd to not make the holiday a once-a-year occurrence, but a way of life.

"I offer to you that it is not

One question that I’m obliged to answer very often is why I chose to study abroad in Switzerland. Out of all the countries I could have chosen to go to – and I could have chosen almost any country in the world – why did I choose this small, seemingly insignificant country in the middle of Europe?

Well, first of all, I wanted to take advantage of the three years of German I had taken at school, so that about narrowed my choices to little more than three countries. However, the main reason why I didn’t choose Germany was that I could trace some family roots to a specific town in Switzerland.

I discovered this obscure village a few years ago when I searched as far back as I could in a family book from my mom’s side, and it took me