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Opinion: We can honor the soldiers for whom the bell tolled

Churches asked to ring bells 21 times on Memorial Day

By Patricia Richards Harris, president

Doddridge County Historical Society

Did you know that when word reached the home front announcing the end of WW2, the American people began ringing their church bells to express their total elation?  The deadly war which had taken thousands of their loved ones’ lives had finally ended after four long years for the Americans and even longer for Europe.  It…