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However, many able-bodied women went to work
in war plants and on the railroad. They took over teaching positions in the schools that had previously been held by men... Our manpower was being drafted. · The old unused streetcar tracks that ran the length of Potomac Street were also removed for arms in the war effort. We had the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, Air Force and Merchant Marine, and we also had more sophisticated methods of warfare during the Second War. Our war dead was tremendous; however, it is doubtful if our losses compare to the devastation and horrible suffering inflicted by the Nazis on the Jews in those hideous death camps, nor the suffering and disfigurement endured by the Japanese when we dropped the Atomic Bomb. A cessation of hostilities came about in 1945. The long list of area victims of this war follows:
KOREA AND VIETNAM CONFLICTS The Korean Conflict (1950-53) took Sterling "Junior" Ambrose, George "Bunky" Ambrose, and Samuel Oliver Frye. Once again our boys were called to military service in the Vietnam Conflict. After 1964, when the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong joined forces, United States forces were drawn into the Asian conflict. This was never a declared war. Fighting continued until 1973, but our forces were not home until 1975, when there were still many "missing in action." Charles Harbert lost his life as a result of this war. These lists are not complete. To those we owe so much, we owe one more gesture of appreciation: to check the records and make sure a complete list is available for generations to come to honor those to whom we owe so much.
Garfield Ambrose Charles Axline William Francis Beacht Charles S. Bowers Alex Clark Glenn Crim, Jr. Paul Cummings Wesley D. Dolan Thomas Dubel Eddie Frye Elmer Frye Donald Griffith Harry M. Hahn, Jr. William Hanvey Earl Harwood Paul E. Huffer Paul Huffer George D. Jenkins, Jr. Melvin Deray Lowery Tommy Mills Roland Moss W. L. Munday Harry M. Nuse Herbert Price Harry W. Rohrback, Jr. Orville Streight Gilmour Will
S - A. L. "Reds" Phillips and his American Legion book on WW II. - Mayor Susan Fauntleroy - speech.
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THE CIVIL WAR For a brief period during the Civil War the since-razed American Legion Home was the headquarters of Major General Alfred Pleasanton, Commander-in-Chief, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. Following the Battle of Gettysburg- July 1, 2, and 3, 1863, the Union forces pursued Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and crossed the Potomac here. HOME USED AS A HEADQUARTERS
General Pleasanton required a portion of Mr. Shorts' residence as his headquarters selecting the lower front room on the right side. Mary Musgrove Collier Crabill remembered stories her mother told about the Army's taking over their house and relegating the family to some back rooms during the Civil War. Confederate prisoners of war were brought to Pleasanton's headquarters for questioning. A little girl, Indiana Shorts, daughter of the owner of the property, feeling sorry for them, offered them food, but was admonished by the Union authorities not to do so.
After the conflict, a World War II tank replaced the World War I artillery piece in Memorial Square, along with a book-type memorial with the names of all the World War II Veterans listed. Those who fell in battle are marked with an asterisk.
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