Long lost letter leads family to gravesite of WWII veteran in Spokane

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After reading a letter from World War II, a family makes it their mission to honor a fallen marine and restore his grave.

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コメント (20)
  • A number of years ago, as a family, with my kids, we participated in the restoration of a local cemetery. Over half the graves were of military veterans, some KIA, some returned home and lived a long life, some 2 war veterans...Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
  • Stories like this make me so proud to be a Marine. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant
  • Thank you for attending to this heroic veterans' gravestone.🇺🇲🇺🇲
  • Thank you for what you do for our service people. My respects.
  • @evilborg
    Thank you for your service..........
  • Thank you for giving of your time and service to remember and honor a fallen and no longer forgotten hero.
  • Another poignant note in all of this is the fact that Mr. McAllister was only 24 years old when he was killed.
  • Amen. Our Military must be remembered for their sacrifices. Semper Fi to our veterans.🇺🇸
  • So many times even family history is lost, my uncle UNSMC PFC Robert Beckmann was killed on Guam in July of 1944, and it wasn't until 2022 that my daughter found his obit and picture that I got to know the information about his death, no one even talked about him. My grandparents put a maker in the family cemetery, but we did some more research and found out that he is actually buried in Guam, I wish there was family left to ask questions about my Uncle. And I in part named my son after his great uncle!
  • The local Cemetery in Loris, SC, has graves of Confederate Civil War Soldiers, and those Military Members from WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam.
  • While I applaud the family for taking care of the headstone, they are destroying it by not using D2 to clean it. NEVER use anything other than soft bristles and D2. Everything else will get into the stone and eat away at it.
  • @nancymeck
    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯
  • Noticed the flag was laying on the ground behind the daughter. Flag should never touch the ground