All Discussions Tagged 'WWI' - The Wild Geese2024-03-28T10:15:50Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=WWI&%3Bfeed=yes&%3Bxn_auth=no&feed=yes&xn_auth=noIreland and the Great War: RTE series on Irish WWI vetstag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-11-11:6442157:Topic:617782013-11-11T19:29:34.303ZJoe Gannonhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeGannon
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<p>A collection of short films from RTE's archive on the Irish who fought in WWI. Includes interviews with many veterans of the war that were done decades ago.…</p>
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<p>A collection of short films from RTE's archive on the Irish who fought in WWI. Includes interviews with many veterans of the war that were done decades ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1011-ireland-and-the-great-war/1017-aftermath/317241-jack-campbell-war-is-war/">http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1011-ireland-and-the-great-war/1017-aftermath/317241-jack-campbell-war-is-war/</a></p> American Legion in Irelandtag:thewildgeese.irish,2013-05-15:6442157:Topic:216292013-05-15T01:12:32.271ZJoe Gannonhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/JoeGannon
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scalecrop628x376/public/legion/magazine/DSC_7384.jpg?itok=7KnWv3jl" target="_blank"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scalecrop628x376/public/legion/magazine/DSC_7384.jpg?itok=7KnWv3jl&width=500" width="500"></img></a> <span class="font-size-1">Legionnaire Ron Howko places a flag at a U.S. soldier’s grave in County Mayo, Ireland. Photo by Jeff Stoffer</span></p>
<p>Ron Howko tromps across a rain-drenched cemetery beside a highway in County Mayo, Ireland. He stops at the headstone of Pvt. James Forkan and immediately…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scalecrop628x376/public/legion/magazine/DSC_7384.jpg?itok=7KnWv3jl"><img class="align-center" src="http://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scalecrop628x376/public/legion/magazine/DSC_7384.jpg?itok=7KnWv3jl&width=500" width="500"/></a><span class="font-size-1">Legionnaire Ron Howko places a flag at a U.S. soldier’s grave in County Mayo, Ireland. Photo by Jeff Stoffer</span></p>
<p>Ron Howko tromps across a rain-drenched cemetery beside a highway in County Mayo, Ireland. He stops at the headstone of Pvt. James Forkan and immediately notices a problem. The wooden pole of a small U.S. flag planted in front of the grave has snapped in half. “No problem,” Howko says. “I have more flags.”</p>
<p>The commander of American Legion Post IR-03 in Claremorris goes to his car, finds a fresh flag, replaces the broken one and looks thoughtfully at the burial plot of a young soldier whose wartime death was ignored for most of a century.</p>
<p>Forkan was one of 62 Irish-born soldiers and sailors who in 1922 were repatriated for burial in their home soil after losing their lives while fighting for the United States in World War I. They were initially buried in military cemeteries in other parts of Europe until their families, given the option, had them exhumed and brought back to Ireland. Once reburied, their associations with the U.S. military were disregarded, due mainly to Ireland’s conflict with Great Britain at the time, Howko says. The fallen troops received no U.S. military honors.</p>
<p>No flags. No headstones engraved with rank, unit or branch of service. No Taps. “Until The American Legion and the Mayo Peace Park got involved, these men laid for over 90 years in unmarked graves,” Howko says.</p>
<p>Read the rest of the story <a href="http://www.legion.org/magazine/214002/sacred-priority" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p>
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