Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army began disinterment of U.S. war dead buried in Great Britain...
...effects continued. In the hills overlooking the Garden of Gethsemane, Arabs and Jews bombarded each other with mortar and grenades. In an orange grove near Rehovoth, Jews blew up a British train bringing soldiers back from leave in Cairo. In the twisted steel and splintered wood, 28 were found dead, 47 wounded. The terrorist Stern Gang of extremist Zionists boasted that it had blown up the train...
must be an integral functioning part of the University, the Committee has ensured that the sacrifice of the University's war dead will be a constant stimulus and example to future generations of Harvard...
According to Senator Saltanstall's announcement, the memorial would be in three parts. The Committee would ". . . inscribe suitably the names of the Harvard dead in World War II in the Memorial Church, construct an auditorium dedicated to those who lost their lives in World War II as an addition to Memorial Hall, and further restore Memorial Hall itself, inside and out, adapting the lower level, now used by other University agencies, for meeting places or offices for extra-curricular student activities...
...tablet as outlined in the new suggestion, is first of all, nearer financial reason at $60,000 than the former $200,000 figure. A list of the war dead will in any case be a part of any memorial, and the location in the Memorial Church has seemed wise to many alumni...