1917: A fur-stole-clad Ella Cermak, presumably the daughter of Anton J. Cermak, then a state legislator and later mayor, "posing with a soldier in front of a light colored panel for Tag Day, i.e. Memorial Day, in a room in Chicago, Illinois." (credit)
circa 1904: "Image of a Memorial Day observation, with children with American flags gathered among the tombstones in a cemetery in Chicago, Illinois." (credit)
1922: A young girl and 3 servicemembers stand at a decorated grave at Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside, Illinois. (credit)
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Photos also inspired our Opinio Juris colleague, Roger Alford, today. See http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1211810077.shtml.
See too our post last summer about 1 veteran's unself-conscious account of how he and his fellow U.S. submariners well-treated enemy POWs, at http://intlawgrrls.blogspot.com/2007/07/story-you-wont-be-hearing-60-years-from.html.
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