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...after his wife, Isabella of France, got fed up and had Edward murdered in 1327, the hero worship of the populace triumphed over the sour recollections of the aristocrats who had known him. Although he has never been canonized, Edward II became (like his forerunner, Edward "the Confessor," no kin) a royal "saint...
...passage of time, U.S. dead of World War II have become a part of the foreign soil in which they lie. But last week President Truman signed a bill under which the remains of the fallen will be returned to the U.S. for reburial if the next of kin so request. Exhumation and shipping will be at Government expense; so will reinterment, if it is in a national cemetery...
...will be an immense and grisly task, for 261,000* now lie in 356 cemeteries on four continents and countless Pacific islands. War Department estimates that up to 70% of the next of kin will ask for the return of remains are based largely on experience after World War I. There had been opposition to the move then, as when Theodore Roosevelt said of his son Quentin, "Where the tree falls, let it lie." There was opposition also to the new and greater march of the dead, both from servicemen (who believed that $200 million could be better spent...
...They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five-time champion. Along the soggy bayou shores, excited Cajuns cheered the Creppels or the Billiots, depending on whose kin they were...
...kin to Lady Percy, wife of Hotspur in Shakespeare's Henry...