Long lost letter leads family to gravesite of WWII veteran in Spokane

After reading a letter from World War II, a family makes it their mission to honor a fallen marine and restore his grave.
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[@guastellaj]

Faith in humanity restored!

[@LUC66631]

you wil be sorry for that 😂😂🤣🤣👎👎👎👎

[@pmclaughlin4111]

A number of years ago, as a family, with my kids, we participated in the restoration of a local cemetery. Over half the graves were of military veterans, some KIA, some returned home and lived a long life, some 2 war veterans...Revolutionary War and War of 1812.

[@usmc-veteran73-77]

Stories like this make me so proud to be a Marine. Semper Fi from an old Marine Sergeant

[@StuartDeBolt]

Thank you for attending to this heroic veterans' gravestone.🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@jennyhildebrand9335]

Yes Very kind of you
BUT NEVER EVER LET THE FLAG TOUCH THE GROUND as Lays on the Grass Behind You!

[@user-dk6ll3pu6i]

Yes, you’re absolutely right. Thank you catching that. Will do better next time, John

[@user-zq4zi3dy3c]

Thank you for what you do for our service people. My respects.

[@evilborg]

Thank you for your service..........

[@wascallywabbit7102]

Thank you for giving of your time and service to remember and honor a fallen and no longer forgotten hero.

[@user-wh3kh1tz5f]

Such kindness and respect 🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@mattthescrapwhisperer]

Another poignant note in all of this is the fact that Mr. McAllister was only 24 years old when he was killed.

[@terryt.1643]

Amen. Our Military must be remembered for their sacrifices. Semper Fi to our veterans.🇺🇸

[@user-pv6vi6xq6d]

respect

[@michaelfitzgerald434]

Quite touching, God Bless!

[@cindyrobinson3882]

Great story!!! We need to hear more stories like this today.

[@bluekitty3731]

So many times even family history is lost, my uncle UNSMC PFC Robert Beckmann was killed on Guam in July of 1944, and it wasn't until 2022 that my daughter found his obit and picture that I got to know the information about his death, no one even talked about him. My grandparents put a maker in the family cemetery, but we did some more research and found out that he is actually buried in Guam, I wish there was family left to ask questions about my Uncle. And I in part named my son after his great uncle!

[@annarcher5198]

❤❤❤

[@dougadams9419]

The local Cemetery in Loris, SC, has graves of Confederate Civil War Soldiers, and those Military Members from WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam.

[@carylosborn1808]

While I applaud the family for taking care of the headstone, they are destroying it by not using D2 to clean it. NEVER use anything other than soft bristles and D2. Everything else will get into the stone and eat away at it.

[@user-dk6ll3pu6i]

Thanks for the tip, we'll use that next time. Cheers, John

[@duanesealy3592]

Over time on a daily basis it's being eating away by earth's elements in the cemetery

[@nancymeck]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯

[@nathanmeece9794]

Noticed the flag was laying on the ground behind the daughter. Flag should never touch the ground

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

Yeah, which is why so many people put flags on vets graves on certain national holidays and then people like me end up cleaning them up out of the dirt and mud months later during cemetery clean ups because the people who put them there just left them, and let the wind and weather do whatever, instead of going back a couple of days later and removing them. I go to annual cleanups at a local cemetery. I have cleaned up numerous cheap flags that people stuck on the graves of vets (including my Great grandad- WW1) but never came back and removed them. SO I have to clean up these peoples messes. Point: If people card about that, they wouldn't be putting flags on vet graves at all. I wish they would not for my great grandad, but it is not up to me. The establishment has to look patriotic, garbage be damned, volunteers will come in March and clean them out of the tall grass or grab them from where they blew up against the fence etc.....