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White crosses—an American cemetery overseas. “If I'should die, think only this of me: .

That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.” ~~ -

—Rupert Brooke.

By DONNA MIKELS ALL OVER the world to-

day, white crosses blossom on fields that once were battle lines, on some corner

of a foreign field “that is forever America.” : : These are the graves of American boys who were buried where they fought and died—whose parents let them remain sleeping with their fallen comrades. Perhaps every parent who made such a decision must have wondered if it was wise. One such family, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin T. Ross, 1127 N. DeQuincey Ave. 8 journeyed to Europe to find the! answer not only for themselves & but for other Gold Star parents. What was the answer? Said Mrs. Ross, as she showed color films of beautiful European cemeteries to a meeting of Gold Star Mothers last week: “You don’t feel like you're in a cemetery. It’s almost as if your boy was buried in your own garden at home.”

Ed = » . IN THE ROWS of white crosses in the beautiful green velvet countryside outside Liege, Belgium, Mr. and Mrs, Ross found the grave of their only son, Staff Sgt. Melvin T. Ross Jr. There also they visited the graves of a Hoosier casualty, Sgt. Lloyd Kane, Whitestown, and the & resting places of four other U. S. airmen who died with their son & after a bombing raid over Germany Mar. 29, 1944, ¥ : Through their visit through Eurdpe Mr. and Mrs. Ross made the same pilgrimages for other families who could not make the trip ‘themselves, visiting three other military cemeteries in England, France and Scotland. Near Metz, France, they visited graves of two Indianapolis heroes, Lts. Vernon Arnold and Louis J. Kirkpatrick. At Cambridge, England, they decorated the grave of another Indianapolis casualty, Lt, Jap Powell Jr. In a churchyard at Annen, Scotland, they prayed at the grave of Robert Dale Fattig, an Indianapolis airman killed in training with the RAF.

2 = = AT EVERY white cross Mrs. Ross placed flowers on the graves. And she made small color snapshots, to send with a sprig Of Jined walks to the graves. These clover from the grave to each]

are not permanent, since all cememother who had requested the io jog are being plotted on master memento. ith th r (plans. “But the boys took it on These, ogeiel wi 8 co or themselves to put them up, for the motion DT or convenience of visiting parents mother who fears her son lies in walks and structures,” explained neglected, ne gemetaries. |Mrs. Ross. “The superintendent and as re : ie. ant superintendent of these cem- You would think that these eteries' are American boys who 8Taves were those of their own Were wn World War II with our Prothers, the care they give them,” own boys,” Mrs. Ross told the She said. . 2 a Gold Star Mothers. “They are| ; a : about the age of our boys and if] MRS. ROSS told of seeing they were our boys they couldn't townsfolk tending graves of boys

be ‘lovelier to the parents who they never met, pouring in by the

visit there.” . Mrs. Ross told how the yank hundreds on Sundays and on Me

morial Day to visit and say a prayer over the grave they had Dying Mother Sees “adopted.” “At Neaville the visitors’ book

Her Son Get Married showed that 2500 té 3000 come

WEST CAMPTON, N. H., Mar./on pleasant week-ends to put 8 (UP)—A dying mother’s wish to|flowers on our boys’ graves. They

‘Melvin T. Ross Jr.

caretakers on their own have put {up white benches in tree-shaded spots and landscaped flower-

see her son married was fulfilled are so grateful to our boys for

today. {liberating them that it's become

Alr Force Pfc. Richard KE. a sacred trust. There are five Viner and his English sweetheart,/ marble plaques donated by schools

Dora-Gow, were married this aft-|and townsfolk that will be part gaily-decorated [of the permanent chapel at Nea-

ernoon in the

living room of his home here. |Ville.” . Rev. Dean Hodges of the Plym-| Throughout Europe the Rosses outh Congregational Church per- reported only one incident to mar formed the ceremony which was/the sentimental journey they

watched by Mrs. Dorothy Viner/made to spots where their son who is incurably ill. lived and died. That was at St. Miss Gow flew here from Lon- Paul's Cathedral in London, don earlier this week. {where a large parchment and Pfc. Viner and Miss Gow, both gold book 4s kept bearing the 19, met while he was stationed in name of every boy who gave his London. He now is stationed at lifes : Grenier «Air Force Base, Man-| Each day a page is turned. The chester, N. H. |day the Indianapolis couple visited

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Mrs. Melvin T. Ross

the Cathedral the book was only ® courtship of 25 years. two pages from their son’s name. But rule-bound British officials| 1926 but both agreed they could refused to turn the pages so the not Gold Star parents could view their| Bunker's widowed

until construction of permanent!

‘son’s name. » » » MRS. ROSS said the best reasoning she could cite to prove

that the fallen heroes were best! eared for in their overseas rest: ing places was a story told her superintendent at ome!

by the cemetery.

He told of one mother who vis-

ited her son’s grave and became wanted his

overwrought. She body sent home.

The cemetery superintendent offered to co-operate but first ig = yl»)

asked her these questions: Would the family have means of setting up perpetual care of their son’s grave. Would he be

buried. somewhere where the

grave would always be kept neat,

{where children would come each {Memorial Day to place flowers land a flag on his {where his grave would be part of

grave and

a shrine to him?

“After thinking these things

over,” said Mrs. Ross, “that mother decided her boy would be given better care there than she could give and I think that’s true with all of us. “I don't think any mother could ask a better spot for her son to lie.” :

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