Funeral Planned for WWII Soldier - Democratic Underground

corksean

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Thu Jan-27-05 09:36 AM
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Funeral Planned for WWII Soldier

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Pvt. Odell Sharpe, killed during World War II, is finally coming home. The remains of Sharpe - presumed slain on Christmas Day 1944 when he as only 19 - were recently identified from a skeleton found in a foxhole near the Belgian-German border.

Now his family is preparing for something long overdue: a funeral.

``I had just made up my mind that I would never know what happened to him, and believe you me, there was many a day I wondered,'' his sister, Mary Miller, said Wednesday from her home in the farm town of Uvalda.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4759854,00.html

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Burma Jones

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Thu Jan-27-05 10:57 AM
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1. Thank you to Odell Sharpe and everyone that fought fascism...n/t

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underpants

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Thu Jan-27-05 11:06 AM
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2. Rest in Peace

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Hand

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Thu Jan-27-05 11:23 AM
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3. RIP, soldier...

Taps

Day is done,
gone the sun,
From the hills,
from the lake,
From the skies.
All is well,
safely rest,
God is nigh.

Go to sleep,
peaceful sleep,
May the soldier
or sailor,
God keep.
On the land
or the deep,
Safe in sleep.

Love, good night,
Must thou go,
When the day,
And the night
Need thee so?
All is well.
Speedeth all
To their rest.

Fades the light;
And afar
Goeth day,
And the stars
Shineth bright,
Fare thee well;
Day has gone,
Night is on.

Thanks and praise,
For our days,
'Neath the sun,
Neath the stars,
'Neath the sky,
As we go,
This we know,
God is nigh.

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