Gold Star Honor Roll of Virginians in the Second World War
Title | Gold Star Honor Roll of Virginians in the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia. World War II History Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | Medal of Honor |
ISBN |
"Constitutes a record of 8,777 persons associated with Virginia who died from any cause whatsoever while serving in the armed forces of the United Nations, 1940-1946, of 11 persons who died as a result of service-connected causes after discharge from the armed forces, and of 149 persons who died from various causes while serving in certain civilian organizations which have been auxiliary to the armed forces of the United States."-- Preface.
Gold Star Honor Roll of Virginians in the 2nd World War
Title | Gold Star Honor Roll of Virginians in the 2nd World War PDF eBook |
Author | W. Edwin Hemphill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 1947 |
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Honor Roll of World War II
Title | Honor Roll of World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution |
Publisher | |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | Soldiers |
ISBN |
Gold Star Honor Roll World War II
Title | Gold Star Honor Roll World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Carmichael, Forrest V. |
Publisher | |
Pages | 137 |
Release | |
Genre | Bartholomew County (Ind.) |
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Maryland in World War II: Gold Star honor roll
Title | Maryland in World War II: Gold Star honor roll PDF eBook |
Author | Maryland Historical Society. War Records Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN |
Gold Star Honor Roll World War II
Title | Gold Star Honor Roll World War II PDF eBook |
Author | Erie County Historical Society. Military Records Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1947 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
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Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent
Title | Just Enough to Put Him Away Decent PDF eBook |
Author | Kristine M. McCusker |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2023-07-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0252054407 |
As the twentieth century began, Black and white southerners alike dealt with low life expectancy and poor healthcare in a region synonymous with early death. But the modernization of death care by a diverse group of actors changed not only death rituals but fundamental ideas about health and wellness. Kristine McCusker charts the dramatic transformation that took place when southerners in particular and Americans in general changed their thinking about when one should die, how that death could occur, and what decent burial really means. As she shows, death care evolved from being a community act to a commercial one where purchasing a purple coffin and hearse ride to the cemetery became a political statement and the norm. That evolution also required interactions between perfect strangers, especially during the world wars as families searched for their missing soldiers. In either case, being put away decent, as southerners called burial, came to mean something fundamentally different in 1955 than it had just fifty years earlier.