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, blessed 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.
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