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LHG Auction for Year 2000 Another Great Success The LHG annual auction for year 2000 was a great success! As in past years, the auction was held on Memorial Day weekend at the Duarte Lincoln Highway Garage (Portola and L Street in Livermore). Doors opened at 5 p.m. for previewing auction items. At 6 p.m. LHG volunteers began serving spaghetti dinners to auction attendees. The dinner hour always provides the opportunity to visit with old and new friends. At 7 p.m. Lynn Owens began the auction with a reading of the following poem as a rememberance and tribute to all the men and women in our armed forces who sacrificed their lives to preserve the freedoms so cherished by their countrymen.  PLEASE REMEMBER ME Remember me, America, for I was once your son I fought and died at Valley Forge with General Washington; I was there at Gettysburg on that tragic, tragic day When brother fought against brother-the Blue against the Gray. Some came back to fight again-but I just lie there still, I went to France with A.E.F. to bring the peace to you. I'm still here at Pearl Harbor since that December seventh day of infamy. Lying silently with shipmates on the U.S. S. Arizona at the bottom of the sea. we fought up hill every inch of the way. We routed the Germans and hurled them back but what a terrible price we had to pay. Until a German depth charge gave us a watery grave I bombed the Ploesti Oil fields, they blew with one big roar But in the attack we were hit with flack-I'll never bomb anymore: I lost my life to try and take a spot called Pork Chop Hill. Vietnam! Vietnam! When will we learn I'm one of sixty thousand who never will return. I was killed in a Scud attack in a war called--Desert Storm! And so in my eternity my thoughts are all for thee I'll never forget my America -- I pray she remembers me. WWII A.F. Combat Veteran |
 Lynn and Randy get the auction rolling |
 Lynn auctions antique accordian being played by Bill |
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 Crowd eagerly awaits auctioneer's gavel signaling start of 2000 auction |
 Future auctioneers Emma and Lauren |
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See you at the next LHG Auction |