Each year in Brighton the Veterans’ Organizations conduct Memorial Day observances. This has been happening since May 30, 1884, when the Samuel B. Appleton Post #179 of the G.A.R. held Memorial Services for their fellow comrades.

This honorable tradition continues to the present organized by the local Veteran’s groups.  The picture is of WWI Veterans who were at the services in 1920.  The picture was taken on the East side of the Old Town Hall.  Of the hundreds of service men from Livingston County, 26 did not return to their families.  It is good to not forget those who sacrificed so much in order that we can savor life in a country such as no other in the world.

MEMORIAL DAY – 1920
WORLD WAR I

Top Row- Left to Right:  Guy Smith, Dave Haywood, Gerald Case,  ? , Harry Birkenstock, Francis Blatchford.
Second Row:  William Weston, Trevor Rickett, Ralph Hamburger, George Holderness, Cyde Sweet, Roger Hodge.
Bottom Row:  Ben Bidwell, Russ Shannon, Eric Singer, Louis Kourt, Burchard Bitten, Harry Wright, Charles Duncan