A Lonely Grave In Belgium
When a small girl in Georgia helped pack Junior Red Cross gift boxes for European children she didn’t know she was providing the link by which her brother’s grave in Belgium would be discovered and cared for. But when her school teacher read a heart-warming letter from Belgiurh thanking the American children for the wonderful gift boxes they had received; it y?as the address of the Belgian school that caught her attention.
By airmail she wrote asking if by chance the school were located near the spot where her brother was killed and believed to be buried during the Battle of the Bulge. The very next Saturday teachers and ' pupils of the school in Belgium set out walking in the direction of the nearest known cemetery: After hiking many miles they came to the cemetery and then, after much checking up and down the rows of crosses, they found it—a cross marked with his name. ■] ! The Belgian children knelt round the grave in prayer and 'laid fresh flowers, on it for their little friend in Georgia. From that time on they adopted the grave as their respon- ... sibility and are still taking care of it.- . •- .
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 88, 18 May 1949, Page 5
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