Well, that sounded better in my head :-) I Did sleep, a whole six hours last night. As a friend pointed out, for me, that's almost a coma. ROFL!!! All kidding aside, I don't remember anything between 11 o'clock last night and 4.30 this morning, and I'm full of vinegar, so I have to assume I spent it sleeping.... Right?
I came home yesterday around 3 and have been buried on the couch with nothing more than my laptop, a binder with information to sort thru and a pen and notepad, for those quick notes I don't want to open a pages document for, nor could my laptop handle the load.... She's only 11 years old, give her a break :-)
I've been jumping thru websites trying to find all the parts I want to incorporate into the Story behind the Star memorials. I plan on writing them on the newly "accounted for" Unknowns Soldiers, so I'm trying to find the "filling" between their last mission and being accounted for, which needs different information than I usually try to find, hense, the scouring of the internet.... and
I HAVE FOUND SO MUCH GOOD SHIT!!!! For now, I've been skimming and saving. A LOT of saving, and bookmarking. I know I should slow down and put stuff away as I find it, but the way my brain functions (on rubberbands and rabbitfluff currently) I won't remember where I was going with any of it, so it's best to do a quick store and sort thru it at a later time. Which will probably translate into "tonight", but who cares..... LOL!
No kidding though, I found a website referencing a book this lady wrote about the temporary cemetery Grand Failly, just south of the French Border from Bastogne, with pictures of the early graves. SO AWESOME! I found several different parts of the NARA website I've never seen, or knew existed, but I'll be visiting. You can bet your boots on that. There's a website that is called "The unwritten record", I found contact information (VERY dangerous) voor de Army Quartermasters......
I found...... to quote Howard Carter..."Wonderful things!" and I promise, as soon as I have everything sorted, I'll post the list as "general information - Military" and hope that the internetpolice doesn't yank the links, because there'll be a bunch.
I also found something that made me giggle and shake my head.... When taking pictures at Ardennes Military Cemetery, I saw one cross that read: Here rests in Honored Glory an American Soldier, known but to God. Now, this puzzled me, because all the others I've registered, read "Comrade in Arms", so it was on my list of questions for when I go back to Ardennes for Section C and D.... While glancing thru the information I was saving, I saw one part that explained it....
On the American Battle Monument site was a section on Stones: Turns out the wording on the markers for Unknown Soldiers, changed between WW-I and WW-II. It changed from Here Rests in Honored Glory an American Soldier in World War I to Here Rests in Honored Glory a Comrade in Arms.... Soooo, did they find one in a back room somewhere or did someone have the wrong example? Not sure, but still interesting. I don't mean to be disrespectful, that's not what this is, it just seemed in a sea of like crosses, this one stood out and to find out that it isn't quite correct while everything is regulated within an inch of its life and even the bushes don't dare grow outside of their paramiter ..... just went sideways in my brain..
So, lucky duck who's working the office when I touch down in a couple of weeks.... one less question :-)
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August 2, 2025
