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Pilgrimage Mothers See Sons’ Graves#Bring Flowers, Flags to American Cemeteries in France.•/KOMACNE - SOUS - MONTFAU-CON, France, May 21. I,*?}—Nearly two-thirds pf the American. gold star mothers looked for the' first time Wednesday on their soidier sons1 graves in the principal Ameri-I can military cemetery here. Thereare buried in this cemetery half or America's war dead in this country.The mothers came in motor cars from historic Verdun where they spent the night resting from their long drive from Paris.The sky Itself was tinged with -sadness and rain cut 9hort the pilgrimage after an hour. Many of the mothers had brot evergreen wreaths, some entwined with flowers and others found wreaths ready | for them here. Some brot little1 American .flags which they placed on the graves.The mothers, almost 200 .of them, went in little groups to different parts of the cemetery and there prayed at the graves of their boys. There was some sobbing and all were ,wet eyed as they lived over again the day their sons departed, the long months .of anguished waiting. and the saddest day of all, •when came word of death.
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Mason City Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa, US
Wed, May 21, 1930
Page 16
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Mary S.
MO, USA 25 May 2020
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