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American Legion

In Memory of the Fallen...

  • Members of Post No. 392 line up for a 21-gun salute and performance of TAPS beneath a half mast Memorial Day flag, lowered out of respect to the many lives lost last week in Uvalde.
    Members of Post No. 392 line up for a 21-gun salute and performance of TAPS beneath a half mast Memorial Day flag, lowered out of respect to the many lives lost last week in Uvalde.
  • Post Commander Johnnie Dierschke offers a few words of welcome to those who attended Monday's Memorial Day Service in Moulton.
    Post Commander Johnnie Dierschke offers a few words of welcome to those who attended Monday's Memorial Day Service in Moulton.
  • Post members pause for a moment to say a few words to the man upstairs.
    Post members pause for a moment to say a few words to the man upstairs.
  • Fikac chose to go review his notes before he launches into his talk.
    Fikac chose to go review his notes before he launches into his talk.
  • The crowd falls silent as the notes to taps sound across the ceremony.
    The crowd falls silent as the notes to taps sound across the ceremony.

    Some 50 area residents gathered Monday, May 30, at the Moulton City Cemetery Pavilion for the American Legion’s annual Memorial Day observances, a day meant to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and are no longer with us, or a retired Lt. Col. Paul Fikac , the day’s guest speaker pointed out, the many wives and mothers out there—"the real heroes among us,” as Fikac put it, for without their support many a soldier would never have been half as good.

    "They gave just as much as any of us every ever did who put on a uniform,” he said. Originally from Charlottenburg, Fikac graduated from Shiner Catholic Schools and later moved to the Houston area with his bride, a Janak girl who hailed from the big city of Wied.

    Fikac said retired in 1991 after giving 32 years to the National Guard.