Local veterans groups work to keep vibrant the many tales of soldiers' sacrifices

From: Otis Willie moderatingstaff@instruction.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: [vetissues] Local veterans groups work to keep vibrant the many tales of soldiers' sacrifices

Local veterans groups work to keep vibrant the many tales of soldiers' sacrifices, by Beth Daley, The Boston Globe

(EXCERPT) As soldiers' stories go, those of Robert and Victor Rhodes are heartbreakers.

Robert Rhodes was the first Hingham man killed in World War II, at Pearl Harbor. Just hours before his death, his fiancee arrived in Hawaii to marry him.

His younger brother Victor later became the first Hingham man to die in the Korean War.

For years, their stories - and a small wooden sign at the corner of Rhodes Circle and Fottler Road memorializing them - went virtually unnoticed, even by some neighbors. It wasn't until last fall when officials from American Legion Post 120 replaced the sign with a granite marker - and retold the story to schoolchildren and residents - that the Rhodes brothers were catapulted back into Hingham's collective memory.

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