Judy Salamacha

As commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union Civil War veterans, Gen. John A. Logan on May 5, 1868, issued General Order No. 11, stating, “The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land.”

On Aug. 4, 1944, Cayucan Karl Haeuser was a staff sergeant based in England with the U.S. Army Air Corps when he was shot down over Normandy, France.