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Albright formed an organization called the West Virginia United Veterans National Cemetery Committee and urged the Veterans Administration to enlarge the Grafton cemetery. Instead, the federal agency decided to save money by digging up 627 unknown Civil War dead and reburying them in separate plastic urns in a mass grave. Over this grave, said the VA, it would erect an imposing common headstone with an inscription stressing the theme "Now We Are One." The VA actually opened up eleven graves and found only a few relics inside. Says Albright: "The dead had no uniforms, no identification, no nothing. So what...
That leaves Albright still looking for a grave. While the VA promises "to explore other possible ways to create additional gravesites," Albright's committee has already begun a $500,000 fund-raising drive to buy the land needed to expand the Grafton cemetery. The unknown soldiers will remain where they...
...N.A.A.C.P. convention. The black vote was basic to his victory four years ago, and he needs it even more urgently this year. The problem is 'not that blacks will desert to Carter's rivals. Reagan's conservative positions turn them off, and John Anderson remains an unknown, although he displayed engaging candor when he told the N.A.A.C.P. convention: "I cannot pretend to know what it is day in and day out to be black in America." The threat to Carter is that blacks may be so disappointed with his performance that they may not vote in large...
...Americans' "shared values," so it seems somewhat odd that his own children were so rarely seen during the primary campaign. It also seems somewhat odd that Reagan barely mentioned his children in his official biography. "We would be," jokes Reagan's oldest son, Mike, 35, "the unknown First Family...
...women chosen for the table each made some kind of contribution to society; each, too, attempted to improve the conditions of women during their lives. And each struggled with her own creativity in a hostile world. Many are unknown--Petronilla de Meath, for example, burned as a witch in Ireland in the fourteenth century. She symbolizes the persecution of women in medieval times, a persecution more gory but no more tragic than that which exists till this...