Last month, the Daily Journal told the story of U.S. Army Cpl. Robert Perry Graham and Cpl. Graham’s return to his family in the Bay Area. (“POW laid to rest,” in the April 9 edition of the Daily Journal). Cpl. Graham had served as a combat infantryman in Korea in 1951, was captured and subsequently starved to death in a North Korean prison camp. Sixty-five years later, his deteriorating bones — verified by a DNA match — were returned to his Bay Area family in a tearful and emotional ceremony at San Francisco International Airport. He is now buried at Holy Cross cemetery in Colma.
On this Memorial Day, we respect and remember Cpl. Graham along with the hundreds of thousands of other fellow citizens who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country over the years. We turn also to the families of the fallen, whose memories of their loved ones are always in their hearts, and for whom the importance and significance of Memorial Day begins each and every day.
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