Why We Do This Blog

by RBruceTharpe on March 5, 2011

“I see too many trench deaths in the papers. My own father, Donald Corrigan (De Pere, Wisconsin), died that way August 25, 1956.

“I was nine at the time and there were eight children in our family—I only wish people like you were around back then.

“I was the oldest of eight children. Please help the surviving family, because the pain never goes away.”

—Lee Corrigan

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