The Pecan Park Eagle

It’s Memorial Day. A fellow named Gary Bedingfield has developed a nice little site of tribute to all people of baseball, professional and amateur,  who gave up their lives in military service to this country during World War II.

Here’s the link. Like crosses on a foreign battleground cemetery lawn, the list speaks loudly enough for itself – and for the people of baseball. It is also important to remember that the total weight of supreme service to the United States always has fallen upon the shoulders of all our American families and not upon any one group alone. The site is simply a tribute to the particular supreme service contributions of the baseball community. The contributions and sacrifices of baseball to the significance of Memorial Day are merely parts of the whole, but it is from all our parts as a whole nation, standing together in times of greatest adversity, that makes us strong.

http://www.baseballinwartime.com/in_memoriam/in_memoriam.htm