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Sunday, as we were heading home from a graduation party on the outskirts of Cashton we happened past on old cemetery. There were two young men and their fathers at work placing a new sign for the plot. It is known as the Pioneer Cemetery.

I’m not sure how many times I drove past this hallowed place, it’s headstones barely readable anymore, and didn’t know it existed.

It wasn’t until the year I decided to follow the Memorial Day color guard on its tour of area cemeteries, hol...