2022 Battlefield Tour - St. Mihiel American Cemetery

Day two of the 2022 Battlefield Tour concludes with a stop at the St. Mihiel American Cemetery at Thiacourt. The 40.5-acre facility contains the graves of 4,135 military dead from World War I, and closes each day with the playing of Taps.
Video produced as part of the National WWI Museum and Memorial’s 2022 Traveling Battlefield Tour: Verdun and Saint-Mihiel. For more information regarding the 2022 tour, and future tours, please visit: theworldwar.org/battlefield-tours
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[@pmccoy8924]

My great grandad fought in the 89th along side 2nd Lt. Wickersham. In his war scrap book he has a Red Cross envelope addressed to The Wickersham family. I would love to get it back to them but don't know how. I don't know what it was for or when but clearly he kept it because he was one of his bravest brothers he fought next to. Likely contact the museum and they have contact. He was Maj in the 353 Co E. Captain during battle he was the lone officer remaining from easy company. Encircled by MG's he stayed in the fight after being wounded putting them out of action awarding him Silver Star (Citation at the time) for heroism. He was commander as Captain being as there was heavy officer casualties. Sobering seeing 2nd LT. Wickersham's grave knowing that he himself could have been in that hollowed ground with a similar headstone inscription (minus MoH) and I wouldn't be here typing this today. God bless these men.

[@robertcorallo8992]

MAY YOU ALL REST IN THE NEW WORLD OF HEAVEN!

[@bryanbard9813]

Memorial Day is a time to pay tribute to those in the military that were killed while fighting for their country.
I would like to pay tribute this Memorial Day weekend to Edgar Bryan Parsons, our Grand Uncle, the brother to my Grandmother Mae Parsons Bard. Uncle to our Cousin Ella Mae Bard, Great Grand Uncle to Brysan and Carsan.
"Born Ashe County NC WW1 Doughboy is PVT Edgar Parsons. He was born in 1899 in the Obids community [Ashe County North Carolina, West Jefferson area]. He joined the army in 1917 while working in West Virginia. Edgar was attached to the 18th Inf 1st Div. He was killed by a exploding shell on March 1 1918. Pvt Parsons was buried in France but has memorial marker in the family cemetery in Glendale Springs NC. PVT Parsons is recognized as the First NC boy to be killed in WW1
He was killed in the Ansauville sector by nighttime creeping barrage in his bunker before a German attack."
His monument is located in the family cemetery close to West Jefferson NC. The monument states he was the first North Carolina soldier killed in World War I. He was killed 28 days before his 19th birthday.
He is buried in France, Saint Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial in Lorraine, France.
An inscription reads "He sleeps far from his family in the gentle lands of France'"
I would like to visit this area one day.
The last photo shows Edgar's Mother. All the mother's of fallen soldiers was taken to France to visit their sons graves. His headstone in France indicates West Virginia, this is because his unit was deployed out of West Virginia.
www.findagrave.com/.../56341608/edgar-bryan-parsons
www.abmc.gov/.../europe/st-mihiel-american-cemetery
czcams.com/video/L_uFmUMJQqY/video.html

[@12799MaDeuce]

The Medal of Honor is AWARDED not "won." It's not something that one competes for.