Civil War Soldier in Unmarked Grave Remembered on Veterans Day
Herman Borghardt, veteran and volunteer, lies somewhere among us. On Veterans Day, a small group of the fervently faithful made sure he was not forgotten and asserted that he should not remain lost.
Across the nation, veterans living and dead were honored Sunday, and multitudes of the graves of those who served were decorated with flags and flowers. In a small, solemn ceremony in Wauwatosa, one soldier who had been forgotten for more than 100 years – and whose exact grave site is still unknown – received prayers, testimonials, a beautiful wreath in the national colors, and an honor guard salute from descendants of those who served with him long ago in America's deadliest war. To the accompaniment of a droning, musical wind, the Gettysburg Address was recited over the place his bones might well lie, read by some from the text, recited by some from memory. At an unmarked potter's field cemetery on Doyne Avenue on the grounds of …
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John Bohler
7:41 pm on Sunday, November 11, 2012
Leave these souls rest in peace! Is there no other place to expand the hospital? These souls made this nation what it is today; the land of the free and brave. moving their earthly remains to a university storage facility is no way to honor them!! remains of our native americans in storage must be returned to their nation by lae for proper burial. We can do nothing less for the remains of our … more ›