"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
On Mother's Day (May 8) in Arlington National Cemetery, the Gold Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul. . . ."
Mrs. Robert Patterson Lamont Jr.
(Frances Kent of Chicago), daughter-in-law...
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