Memorial Day Thanks

Laf1980
Thu, 29 May 2008 08:58:18 +0000

Shogun, I echo your thoughts. Our family lost Alexander Herries, Jr. Corporal, U.S. Army 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division; killed in action October 4, 1918 buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Romagne, France. Lost forever, but never forgotten as my father was named after him. What many do not realize because it happened so long ago is that America lost over 60,000 men along the Western Front in WWI in the space of only a year and a half. That is more than we lost in either Korea or Vietnam.

I am new to CC, and your thread touched me so much that I felt compelled to register.