Flags decorate the headstones of veterans at the Civil War cemetery in City View Cemetery on Memorial Day (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Graves of veterans are marked with flags during the Memorial Day tribute to fallen veterans at City View Cemetery Monday (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)An honor guard fires a salute to fallen veterans during a Memorial Day observance Monday at City View Cemetery (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)Members of a pipe and drum band prepare to perform at a Memorial Day event honoring fallen veterans at City View Cemetery in Salem (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)World War II veteran Jesus “Monty” Mones, 86, takes photos during a Memorial Day event honoring veterans at City View Cemetery in Salem (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)One of the wreaths being placed at Memorial Day event honoring veterans at City View Cemetery in Salem (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)A flag ripples in the breeze Monday as veterans salute fallen veterans at City View Cemetery in Salem (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)A flight of military jet fighter aircraft pass overhead during an event honoring fallen veterans Memorial Day in Salem (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
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Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three children, Monica, Kimberly, and Christopher, attended and graduated from Salem public schools. Cooper retired from the Statesman Journal in 2001 but, has continued his passion for photography in many ways, including as a photographer for the Salem Reporter.
