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In a moving conclusion to the day's events, representatives of both sides laid another wreath at the Torgau cemetery against a polished gravestone on which clasped hands are chiseled. Buried there is Joseph Polowsky, a Chicago taxi driver and former 69th Division rifleman who was a member of the Kotzebue patrol. When he died two years ago of cancer, his wish to be buried beside the Elbe was granted by East German authorities.