As we know Memorial Day is a solemn day for remembrance and honoring those who have died in service to our nation.
As a lad growing up, my Grandparents always made the trek to the cemetery to place a flag on Huron's plot.
Seems Great Uncle Huron did his patriotic duty and signed up for service in the Army and on his first overseas deployment he died at 25 in 1918 at the battle of St. Mihiel France.
Thanks to the WWW, there is specific historical data which my GParents/Mother only dreamed of knowing about where Huron died https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saint-Mihiel
Today, the cemetery(ies) do the due diligence of putting up flags for those who died so long ago or in the conflicts ongoing.
Take a moment next Monday if you have verbal familial history of a relative who passed in the service of our nation, and say THANKS...
As a lad growing up, my Grandparents always made the trek to the cemetery to place a flag on Huron's plot.
Seems Great Uncle Huron did his patriotic duty and signed up for service in the Army and on his first overseas deployment he died at 25 in 1918 at the battle of St. Mihiel France.
Thanks to the WWW, there is specific historical data which my GParents/Mother only dreamed of knowing about where Huron died https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saint-Mihiel
Today, the cemetery(ies) do the due diligence of putting up flags for those who died so long ago or in the conflicts ongoing.
Take a moment next Monday if you have verbal familial history of a relative who passed in the service of our nation, and say THANKS...