If you are wondering why:
Military & historically focused memorials from Canada, USA & around the world. 99.9 percent of these military memorials were abandoned to the 3,000,000+ Find-a-Grave holding bin so I decided to look for them and take them on. Many of these soldiers had their lives significantly abbreviated in body, mind, and soul so I made a point of printing their rank and the unit they were with, in full, in the biographies I created - which are few. The youngest soldier, in the memorials I manage, was a Royal Marine Light Infantry, Bugler, lost at sea, age 15 - his body was never recovered. The youngest in my virtual cemeteries was killed in action on Iwo Jima at age 14; Another at age 16 was fatally wounded at the Battle of Jutland - he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for the actions he took near the end of his life. Many in my virtual cemeteries gave their lives for causes or for reasons that have withered in value over time and may seem politically incorrect to some, many, or all in this day and age. General William Tecumseh Sherman described the endeavour succinctly. "War is Hell!." ------ Yrs. truly, Billy Budd.
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Who is Billy Budd you may ask?
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"I'm nobody! who are you?
Are you - nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!"
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Emily Dickinson.

If you are wondering why:
Military & historically focused memorials from Canada, USA & around the world. 99.9 percent of these military memorials were abandoned to the 3,000,000+ Find-a-Grave holding bin so I decided to look for them and take them on. Many of these soldiers had their lives significantly abbreviated in body, mind, and soul so I made a point of printing their rank and the unit they were with, in full, in the biographies I created - which are few. The youngest soldier, in the memorials I manage, was a Royal Marine Light Infantry, Bugler, lost at sea, age 15 - his body was never recovered. The youngest in my virtual cemeteries was killed in action on Iwo Jima at age 14; Another at age 16 was fatally wounded at the Battle of Jutland - he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for the actions he took near the end of his life. Many in my virtual cemeteries gave their lives for causes or for reasons that have withered in value over time and may seem politically incorrect to some, many, or all in this day and age. General William Tecumseh Sherman described the endeavour succinctly. "War is Hell!." ------ Yrs. truly, Billy Budd.
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Who is Billy Budd you may ask?
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"I'm nobody! who are you?
Are you - nobody - too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know

How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!"
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Emily Dickinson.