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"In the months before Moses Elkins, of Troy, Vt., gave his life for his country, he endured almost unimaginable deprivation. His bones, mixed in a jumble with those of hundreds of other American soldiers, now lie in the earth, beneath the neatly manicured grass of a national cemetery.
At the least — at the very least, say his relatives — Elkins’ heroic service should be memorialized with a granite marker that bears his name. But, in a decision that affects more than 100 soldiers from Vermont and New Hampshire, the Department of Veterans Affairs has declined to erect a marker with Elkins’ name."
"In the months before Moses Elkins, of Troy, Vt., gave his life for his country, he endured almost unimaginable deprivation. His bones, mixed in a jumble with those of hundreds of other American soldiers, now lie in the earth, beneath the neatly manicured grass of a national cemetery.
At the least — at the very least, say his relatives — Elkins’ heroic service should be memorialized with a granite marker that bears his name. But, in a decision that affects more than 100 soldiers from Vermont and New Hampshire, the Department of Veterans Affairs has declined to erect a marker with Elkins’ name."
