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Erie is famous for its annual Old Soldiers and Sailors Reunion held during the second full week of July, including the annual Free Bean Feed. This reunion has been conducted continuously since 1873 and is claimed to be the oldest consecutively running Old Soldiers and Sailors Reunion in the country. [28] [29]
This is a list of Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) posts in Kansas, United States.. The G.A.R., Department of Kansas was established December 7, 1866. It was preceded by an organization known as the Veteran Brotherhood (and Union Brotherhood), State of Kansas organized in December 1865.
A monument of Whitney granite on a base of the same was erected in 1893 in Pine Ridge Cemetery in a section dedicated as Soldier's Rest. Pine Ridge Cemetery is located on the SE corner of Tuscola and Ridge Rd [40] In 1902, an 8-inch Howitzer siege gun cannon was added to the Soldier's Rest section of Pine Ridge to guard the soldiers. [41]
Al Klugiewicz, left, a World War II veteran and one of the oldest men in the United States, is pictured with his son, Tim, in a common area of the Community Living Center at Erie Veterans Affairs ...
For the veterans, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home was "a haven of rest for those who, having fought for the salvation of their country, found themselves in their old age, crippled, without homes ...
The food boxes are given to 200 veterans and 40 families in the Erie region.
The monument is located in the Soldier's Lot of the Baxter Springs Cemetery, and is dedicated to the 132 soldiers who died in the Battle of Baxter Springs October 8, 1863. Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Memorial Arch , erected 1898 in Junction City, Kansas , NRHP-listed
Mick Yanick, 99, is one of five World War II veterans at the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home in Erie. Skip to main content ... 1944, the 18-year-old Army recruit, who was already 10 ...