A War Hero to Remember this Memorial Day...

Uncle Harry F. Kelly, circa 1917-1918
Note: Harry was married to Anne O'Brien, one of
Martha Marion's older sisters (along with Eleanor,
Kitty, and Margaret).


Found this letter to Harry's father after Harry was wounded in the
famous Battle of Chateau-Thierry.  To read it, click
HERE.

Millions were killed in WWI, during which tanks, the machine gun,
poison gas, long-range artillery, and aerial bombing were first used
to obliterate the enemy (which included noncombatants who happened
to get in the way, including women, children, the elderly) 

It was originally called The Great War because nobody in his right
mind could conceive of going through such hell ever again.  Unfortunately,
Hitler wasn't in his right mind....