By Kim McDarison

Roger Yin, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, served as the speaker at a Memorial Day observance held in Fort Atkinson’s Evergreen Cemetery.

Yin is a member of the university’s College of Business and Economics, where he teaches information technology. He serves as chief training officer of a U.S. $1.1 million Department of Defense WISECURED Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification grant on defense suppliers of cybersecurity readiness training.

Additionally, Yin, who holds a Ph.D. in instructional systems technology from Indiana University, Bloomington, has more than 20 years invested in teaching IT and cybersecurity-related courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, according to the university’s website.

He was introduced Monday to observance attendees by VFW Post 1879 Surgeon Jamil Kahn.

Fort Atkinson’s Memorial Day observance included a Marine Observance held at the shore of the Rock River, after which members of area military organizations, their guests, and community groups, including troops of Girls and Boy Scouts of the USA, and the Fort Atkinson High School Band, among others, paraded along the city’s Main Street to Evergreen Cemetery, where the day’s observance continued in the facility’s Soldiers Circle.

The full observance included the placing of flowers in the Rock River and at the Solders Circle monument in honor of fallen soldiers, the reading of “In Flanders Field,” a poem written during World War I by Lt. Col. John McCrae, the sounding of taps both near the river and in the cemetery, and the playing of the National Anthem, also at both sites.

Additionally, an honor guard performed a gun salute.

Observance attendees in the cemetery also heard readings of the Gettysburg Address and Logan’s Orders.

A more detailed accounting of Fort Atkinson’s Memorial Day activities is here: https://fortatkinsononline.com/fort-observes-memorial-day-2/.