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Date: May 28, 2012 9:58:05 AM EDT To: Subject: Memorial Day Message from Rep. Scott Holcomb Reply-To: info@georgiademocrat.org Few holidays impact me as much as Memorial Day.  As one of my friends who is a veteran said so well, "Memorial Day isn't when we remember what we won.  It's when we remember what we lost." For the last several days, I've been remembering the fallen.  I started by recalling the first time the meaning of this holiday really hit home.  It was after I had enlisted in the Air National Guard and I was driving with my father.  It was very late, well after midnight, and as we were about to exit he asked me to drive a little farther.  Minutes later, we pulled up to a Vietnam Veterans Memorial. We got out of the car and sat down on a bench a few meters from the V sculpture engraved with names.  My father had served in Vietnam and I was born while he was overseas, but we had never talked about what happen...

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Please purchase some local foods at the Farmers Market Saturday morning featuring . . . . . Subject: Oconee Farmers Market To: oconeefm@yahoo.com Memorial Day is upon us already, be sure to come out and pick up what you'll need for the weekend. We will have cinnamon rolls, pitas and fresh homemade breads and biscotti as well as granola. There will be homemade cupcakes, cakes, pecan pralines, baklava and assorted pastries as well as blueberry pie, apple pie, sweet potato pie , pecan pie , banana-nut bread, snickerdoodle cookies, apple-pecan muffins. We will have fresh locally grown herbs, edible flowers , greens, lettuce, radishes, sprouts, green onions , spinach, squash , broccoli, onions and boiled or fried peanuts and pork skins. Don't forget about our farm fresh eggs and Johnson Dairy Milk . We will have ornamental plants , hanging baskets , potted flowers and fresh cut flowers . Head of the Meadow Farms will be selling grass fed beef. ...