[HiTech RedNeck]

I take it this caption must be at the place the photo originally appeared. It isn’t on this thread. Color me ignorant of such things, but I had thought when a decorated troop is buried in a military graveyard with a spouse, both would be mentioned by name on the marker. Maybe it’s on the other side?

[ConorMacNessa]

In military cemeteries that I am familiar with, including ANC, the name of the spouse is typically inscribed on the reverse side of the headstone. Possibly the reference to his wife on the front of the headstone is because she predeceased him and was buried first.



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

I don’t know.

This is where the grave marker came from:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7073072

Burial: Waveland Cemetery, Prairie City, Jasper County Iowa, USA.

And the background/story link is at the top of the thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_F._Briles