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Quite a tribute to our fallen veterans today in Perryville on this Memorial Day. Over 300 people attended an afternoon Memorial Day service at Missouri’s National Veterans Memorial. The featured speaker, Jack Jackson, a colonel in the Marines flew 668 combats missions in Vietnam. Jackson spoke to the crowd about the importance of this day and those servicemen and women who gave their lives for our country.