Posted on 04/30/2010 11:13:34 AM PDT by Mears
"Farrell's remains were discovered in 2008,when a German explosives team swept a proposed construction site--------"
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
I guess he’ll be buried today.If I had seen this story in time I would have asked which cemetery it was so I could go there and (quietly and unobtrusively) pay tribute to him during the burial.In fact,I’ll ask you...which cemetery? I’d like to go there and visit the grave.
Walking around the Hurtgen Forest, you find evidence of the battle lying right on top of the ground. Disturb the soil a bit with your boot, and more appears. Its everywhere.
During the time that I served in the 8th Infantry Division in the 1980’s, several remains of division soldiers were found in the Hurtgen Forest. We always sent an honor guard to escort the remains to the cemetery in Luxembourg, or to Rhein Main for transport home.
Welcome home, SGT Farrell. RIP.
Okay, that’s my tearing up for today.
Amazing,isn’t it——all these years later?
Still have an uncle missing aboard a B17 which disappeared somewhere over the Alleutians. I hope someday we can bring him home too. He was one of 3 gold stars my Grandmother had displayed from her window. American families all across this great nation of ours paid a high price for what is being squandered away today. Just breaks my heart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hurtgen_Forest
A really nasty battle on the Western Front 44-45.
I was a kid (9-13) during WWII and we used to count the blue and gold stars hanging in the windows.
Looking back,it is almost like a dream,a bad dream.
I hope your uncle's remains are found-——but the Aleutians are so remote it probably would be unlikely. He's in a better place and wouldn't even recognize the country that he left.
Thanks for that link.
What awful years they were.
Mine, too. Isn’t it odd how we can cry like this over men we never knew?
You are most certainly correct, he would not recognize this country today and would wonder if this present generation would even muster a spirit to survive such an ordeal as they faced.
I still hold hope he will be found with all the subsea technology at present which could map large areas of the ocean floor. These stories of locating a plane come up every now and then. Thanks for your hope in finding him as well
I can’t even imagine the kids today rushing to join up as they did in WWII
A friend of mine had a brother who was a tail gunner over the Pacific 4 months after graduating from high school.
There was no graduation ceremony because the kids were all off to war. He made it home,thank God.
The word “patriotism” is now considered an obscenity with many young people.
Yes thank God for those soldiers’ return. My father was one of two surviving brothers returning from the war. And, well, if he weren’t I would not be in existence typing this. A personal thanks to The Lord
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