The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II (DeAngelis - WH) Local History And it provides a powerful

And it provides a powerful understanding of how historical trauma is inherited from one generation to the next and how

John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president watched a production of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre

the brotherhood was confronted with a difficult conflict when the Civil War broke out in 1861

He won distinction despite the fact that he was assailed by jealous superior officers (West Point Engineers) as a mere “soldier of fortune

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The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II (DeAngelis - WH) Local History And it provides a powerfulby Caitlin Galante DeAngelis When World War I ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to work for the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920s and 1930s, these veteran gardeners married local women, raised bilingual children, and dedicated themselves to caring for the graves of their fallen comrades. When World War II swept through Europe in 1940, more than 200 War Graves gardeners were stranded in Nazi occupied