{"id":72,"date":"2012-06-20T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-09-26T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:07:07","slug":"rosecrans-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/burkhart-sculptor.com\/rosecrans\/rosecrans-14-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosecrans 14"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Rosecrans<\/div>\n

Journal Entry for Sketch #14<\/strong><\/p>\n

I leave the building and walk down the hill to the gateway by the road. I am reading the pamphlet as I walk. It tells me there are 9 Medal of Honor Winners buried here. I think maybe I am to sketch by one of these graves today. Surprisingly only three died in action. The pamphlet also tells me there is a plaque near the entrance honoring those whose remains have never been recovered. I walk down the hill looking for this plaque, but instead discover a gravestone inscribed with “Medal of Honor”. But, when I read the names from the pamphlet the recipient is not on the list. I decide the least I owe this man is to return and tell Charlie to add him to the revised pamphlet when it is printed again, so I walk back to the Visitor\u2019s Center. But it is closed. I turn around and as I do I observe an African-American man walking towards me. He walks up to me and says, “Are you here to meet me?” I am stunned and do not know how to respond, so I ask him why he is here. He tells me that he is here to day (my last day of the project) to arrange for the funeral of his friend who just died in Iraq. I tell him I cannot help him with this but I am stunned by the coincidence of this last major encounter I have at the site. I go to the other side of the cemetery to look for the Medal of Honor Winners. I see two huge ships docked below in the harbor. I photograph them as a backdrop to the gravestones. A new stone catches my eye:<\/p>\n

Arthur A Cidester
\nCol. USMC
\nWW II-Korea
\nPurple Heart-POW
\n1913-1954<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the first POW I have seen. The Korean War ended 1953 – did he die there? Then, I encounter another group of Vietnam War dead, 26 in all, all Purple Hearts. I complete Sketch #12 here by the grave of Anund Roak, Sergeant U.S. Army, killed in Vietnam at 20 years of age May 16, 1968 the year I gradated from High School. Nearby I find is the grave of the first Medal of Honor winner listed in the cemetery pamphlet; and, one of only three who died in action.<\/p>\n

Herbert C Jones
\nENS US Navy
\nMedal of Honor
\nDied in Action at Pearl Harbor
\n1\/21\/18 – 12\/17\/41
\n27 at death<\/strong><\/p>\n

No flags in the cemetery today except at the main entrance as usual. Nor are there many visitors today at the cemetery. The marble gravestones sit stark against clear blue skies drenched in a marble white light. But, I am still intent on finding a soldier who died in WWI to complete the project. I have researched several soldiers who I believe are from this war at the records kiosk and believe them to be in Post Section 8 in the middle of the Southside of the cemetery where I am now. I find the section but the graves are not there. I begin to realize that I am seeing a lot of gravestones in this area that have certain unusual characteristics. They do not have record numbers on them like those from other wars. Nor is the name of war listed on the tombstones. They all have this shield symbol on them with the dead\u2019s name inside. I conclude after looking at a number of gravestones like this that the typical WWI gravestone has a shield on it with only name and rank and\/or service dates listed. Confirming my conclusions one says “Died France 2\/2\/17”.<\/p>\n

Gale S. Stephenson
\nM.T.Co. 3.2.MC
\nBorn 1\/11\/78
\nDied France 2\/2\/17
\n39 years old a death<\/strong><\/p>\n

postscript<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Finished sculpting last sculpture of series on March 19, 2005
\nExactly two years after start of Iraq War.<\/p>\n

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>> Next: End of Series: Poseidon’s Epiphany<\/a><\/p>\n

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