Hallowed Grounds: New PBS Documentary Premieres on Memorial Day
May 19 2009
Nearly 125,000 American military men and women are buried overseas in the lands where they fell. The bodies of almost 100,000 more have never been found. But not one of them has been forgotten.
This Memorial Day, May 25, at 10 PM (ES T), a new PBS documentary “Hallowed Grounds” features footage of 22 overseas U.S. military cemeteries from World Wars I and II, and vignettes about the heroic men and women buried there, and those who visit them.
Some of the featured were well known, including the poet Joyce Kilmer, two of Theodore Roosevelt’s sons, band leader Glenn Miller, the five Sullivan brothers, and General George S. Patton. But most were ordinary men and women of all backgrounds, caught in the calamity of war.
Each of these overseas military cemeteries provides a constant reminder in the countries where they reside of the tremendous sacrifice Americans had made to preserve peace and freedom in the world. And they create a fitting resting place for those who paid the ultimate price.
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