7 Dec 2024 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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Standing on the BB-39 memorial looking at that marble wall is a very humbling experience. RIP.

[eb in oregon]

Visiting the USS Arizona was one of the most moving experiences of my life.

[Mark in Rochester]

ST. JOSEPH NEWS PRESS
ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI
MONDAY 4 APRIL, 1949


IMPRESSUVE FUNERAL FOR THREE BROTHERS

OSCEOLA, MO., April 4. - (AP) - The most impressive military funeral ever witnessed in this central Missouri community was held yesterday for three Lewis brothers who died in action in World War II

The brothers were:
Private First Class George Lewis, 26 years old, killed in France August 4, 1944


Private William Richard Lewis, 25, killed in France June 18, 1944.

Private James Thomas Lewis, 21 killed in Germany March 25, 1945

The 560-seat gymnasium of Osceola High School was filled for the service, with many persons standing to witness the ceremony

The local American Legion post provided a military guard which flanked the trio of caskets throughout the services. The funeral procession following the service was more than three blocks in length.









Two Brothers Survived the War

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An Australian 6 star mothers medal came up the other day on E-Bay that is sad that she lost 6 the mothers are often forgotten having raised them only to lose them in the flower of their youth RIP.

War is cruel on so many levels, I personally believe we as a species will never know peace with the most likely outcome the big firecrackers will come out and not having 50 million + sunblock we will all be snuffed out.

[Mark in Rochester]

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

Dear Madam,--

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

A. Lincoln



Letter to Mrs. Bixby
In the autumn of 1864 Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew wrote to President Lincoln asking him to express condolences to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, a widow believed to have lost five sons during the Civil War. Lincoln's letter to her was printed by the Boston Evening Transcript. Later it was revealed that only two of Mrs. Bixby's five sons died in battle, Charles and Oliver. Of the remainder, one deserted the army, one was honorably discharged, and another deserted or died a prisoner of war.
The authorship of the letter has been debated by scholars, some of whom believe it was written instead by John Hay, one of Lincoln's White House secretaries. Apparently the original letter was destroyed by the newspaper editor after publication or by Mrs. Bixby, who may have been a Confederate sympathizer and disliked President Lincoln. Copies of an early forgery have been circulating for many years, causing some people to believe they possess the original letter.

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The same transcript was read out in a scene in Saving Private Ryan which I might add the opening scenes and the landing really had the cinema audience where we were humbled, ourselves as well the wife & I when the film first came out.