I am thankful for happy memories like this from the last months of Dad’s life. Here he is in his 4th of July finery! Our father-dad on his last 4th of July Inter-Faith Flag Raising Ceremony at the Bellevue 1st Ward building in Bellevue, Washington in 2007. I have his straw hat, red suspenders and,…
Accessed my paternal grandfather’s WWI Draft Registration Card for free @familysearch #genealogy “United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.” Database with images, Shirley Player image 2181 of 4078, FamilySearch. (FamilySearch.org : viewed 8 July 2023.) Citing NARA microfilm publication M1509. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
Official military files reduced to ashes following 1973 fire at the Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
