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Honoring Our Military Dead

The United States has been honoring our men and women who fought and died in the defense of the country since our earliest days.

Their service is often recorded on monuments that we see in every town in America. Did you realize that newspapers also remembered and named the thousands of soldiers and sailors that died? GenealogyBank's deep newspaper archive has thousands of articles that do just that.

The 50 state Adjutants General have maintained and published rosters of those who served and those who died, and those reports are often published in local newspapers. For example, here is an article from the Oregonian updating the list of those that died in World War I from the state of Oregon.


Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 20 September 1920, page 6

Oregon's Adjutant General (AG) maintained a list of all who died in the Great War, and continued to research and track down the names of every Oregonian who had died but was missing from the state list.

The article noted that AG George A. White (1880-1941) had received notification of 80 more Navy sailors who had died, raising the total of Oregonians that had died in the war to 1,000. According to the article:

"Forty-eight of the 80 were native-born Oregonians. The others enlisted from various [towns] in Oregon."


Photo: George A. White. Credit: Wikipedia.

GenealogyBank joins with the nation in honoring our fallen service members who gave their "last full measure of devotion."