Kathy: Inspired by Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Soldier” and paraphrasing a line from it I’ve crafted this tribute.
They never came Home but there is a spot in a Foreign Land that is forever North Sanpete.
ID: 39835618
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Staff Sergeant
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 527th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy
Died: Monday, December 20, 1943
Buried at: Netherlands American Cemetery
Location: Margraten, Netherlands
Plot: M Row: 3 Grave: 6
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
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Clyde W. Rigby
ID: O-743208
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 577th Bomber Squadron, 392nd Bomber Group, Heavy
Died: Tuesday, January 04, 1944
Memorialized at: Cambridge American Cemetery
Location: Cambridge, England
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart
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Russell S. Jensen
ID: 39675224
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Private
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, Headquarters Squadron, 5th Air Base Group
Died: Thursday, September 07, 1944
Memorialized at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
Awards: Purple Heart
From Moroni
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Charles Rutishauser
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Technical Sergeant
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 526th Bomber Squadron, 379th Bomber Group, Heavy
Died: Sunday, June 18, 1944
Buried at: Ardennes American Cemetery
Location: Neupre (Neuville-en-Condroz), Belgium
Plot: D Row: 16 Grave: 4
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
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Wallace W. Candland
ID: 39918059
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Corporal
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, Army Air Corps
Died: Thursday, January 04, 1945
Memorialized at: East Coast Memorial
Location: New York, NY, USA
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Dee A. Johnson
ID: O-730509
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: First Lieutenant
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces, 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group
Died: Sunday, July 11, 1943
Memorialized at: Sicily-Rome American Cemetery
Location: Nettuno, Italy
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 6 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Wasatch Academy
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James K. Sorensen
ID: 03684611
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Ship's Cook, Third Class
Service: U.S. Navy, United States Navy
Died: Friday, December 11, 1942
Memorialized at: Manila American Cemetery
Location: Fort Bonifacio, Manila, Philippines
Awards: Purple Heart
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Harold Q. Graham
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Private First Class
Service: U.S. Army, 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division
Died: Saturday, May 12, 1945
Buried at: Netherlands American Cemetery
Location: Margraten, Netherlands
Plot: K Row: 17 Grave: 3
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Ferris Ivory
ID: 06604538
Entered the Service From: Utah
Rank: Aviation Radioman, Second Class
Service: U.S. Navy, United States Naval Reserve
Died: Saturday, February 23, 1946
Memorialized at: Honolulu Memorial
Location: Honolulu, HI, USA
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 4 Gold Stars
Wasatch Academy
The Soldier
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
When you start to leave names all concerned needs to be included, there are others who gave their lives in the second world war.
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