| Show french adopt yanks graves that many frenchmen have adopted graves of american soldiers and keep them trim and flowers was the report of hilton U brown chairman of the board of directors of the indianapolis news to bowman elder bider national chairman of the france convention committee of the american legion following allegations that the graves of american soldiers in foreign soll soil had been desecrated mr brown whose son 1111 illston ton U brown jr Is burled buried in romagne cemetery madea personal investigation 1 I 1 first visited the american military cemetery at suresnes Sur esnes near parts paris sir air brown veteran newspaper man said in reporting his investigation it if there had been any desecration of graves it would most likely be at suresnes Sur esnes near a great city where if anywhere disorderly conduct might be expected there are 1000 1500 amerlean american soldiers and marines burled buried there the cemetery Is in care of james 11 II duncan of the eleventh engineers the cemetery Is in excellent order and Is conspicuously and beautifully located after hea rinji my purpose lieutenant duncan said 1 I am especially interested te in this cemetery because some of my own company are burled buried here any impropriety or desecration would bo be instantly known by me and reported to headquarters there has been no incident ol of that nature on the contrary the most scrupulous courtesy Is 13 always shown by all visitors and passersby passers by french troops going to or from the fort are almost constantly pass ing they always come to attention on approaching the cemetery and remain so until the last soldier ha lina passed the last grave this mean means meters for that Is the length of the road on which the cemetery fades fades nearby in a public bublic athletic ground I 1 have seen been ten thousand people watching games there not one has evar ever climbed up on the cemetery wall or placed foot on it in witnessing the games we have french people who havo have adopted american soldiers graves and come frequently to de decorate cor to graves andray and pay tribute thousands of 0 visitors come here and none has ever evell left the paths or tramped on the graves there are more french than americans that visit romagne cemetery the largest american cemetery in france they show unusual respect tor far tho the place |
