2023年12月18日 · I pass through everyday going to and coming home from work. One day coming home I noticed a sign at the cemetery for Wreaths Across America. I pulled over and made a mental note of the time it would start. We went and ended up placing 2 wreaths at a headstone that had the names of a husband AND wife who both served. A great day for our …

2019年8月2日 · But even at Christmas, the raiders' graves get no special consideration. This photo was taken a few years ago, I believe it was given to me by Park Ranger Jennifer Hopkins. Reactions: Lubliner , 52ndFandS , bankerpapaw and 12 others

2005年2月20日 · I took down my prayer-book and read the service of Christmas Church, with our good Bishop or Dr. Page officiating—-to recall the wreaths and emblems, to fill my soul once more with the melodious flood of the organ—the grand Te …

2019年8月10日 · September would make sense as there are reports of grave digging after the battle at night by flickering lamp light. But I believe it is a when can we do it thing. In September there is a lot of other things going on around and in Sharpsburg. Then shortly after the luminaries, around the middle of December Wreaths are placed on graves.

2024年11月26日 · Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all. Santa brought me a wonderful Dirty Billy's hat for my impression. The material of the crown is much stiffer than that of my forage cap, and I wish to attach some hat brass to it. How would I go about doing that? I was thinking something along punching...

2012年2月14日 · There are many legends about the first Christmas trees, the one on Martin Luther is just one. In book, "The Everything Family Christmas Book" by Yvonne Jeffery, there is chapter on trees, customs and legends. "As early as the Roman Saturnalia, trees were decorations, but the custom did not become a part of Christmas until the middle Ages"

2013年2月18日 · Had a really great Christmas,,a few Civil War items that I definitely wanted,,,but my favourite gift was from my Dad,,he's 83, and not 100%,, but he gifted me his prized book,,his copy of the WW2 book "With the Old Breed", by Eugene Sledge. Eugene Sledge was a Marine who's biography was included in the television series "The Pacific".

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2011年3月18日 · christmas The peculiar situation of our country, forbids us realizing the usual pleasures and festivities of a Christmas Day, in all their bearings. Fathers and sons are absent in the tented field; many a family mourns the loss of some loved one, struck down by the invader; while others are suffering from the crushing and vindictive acts of the ...

2019年7月14日 · In a previous post ("1863 Roby Cavalry Sabers - A Theory") I discussed how in 1863 the state of Massachusetts contracted for and received 1208 light cavalry sabers from C. Roby & Co. of West Chelmsford, Mass. (1863 Mass. Adjutant General's Report). That same year the State also contracted with...