And I'll bet the great
majority of the wayne p. baileys would not trade all the engraved marble
in the world for the above situation...memorials aren't much good to the
memorialized, but if we must have them, IMO, a jeff is damned sight
better memorial to a wayne p. bailey than some monogrammed marble...
TC,

While descendants may normally good things and may speak volumns about the
men and women who carried the guns and built the planes, oral histories
don't always get handed down in a timely or accurate manner. Three
generations and the memories are largely gone. It's good to have both the
living and the granite memorials. I know a limited amount of my father's
PTO naval history, my mother's Nurse Cadet Corps service, slightly more
about my step-father's NA& ETO AAF history, and quite a bit about my
father-in-law's ETO Army history. My children have little concern for such
history. Should they have children, they'll hand nothing down of that
time. This project is not only a memorial but a belated attempt to document
the scope of citizen involvement in winning WWII.

--
Stev Lenon 91B20 '68-'69
Drowning flies to Dark Star

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