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US Flag - The American flags proudly waving in front of our homes on Memorial Day weekend serve to remind us of the terrible price of war and the ultimate sacrifice made by someone's beloved spouse, child, or parent. My heart goes out to family members who have suffered such a loss. In the spring of 1947, when my father (Howard L. Peckham) became in charge of the permanent disposition of more than 145,000 American World War II dead of the European Theater, the stars and stripes proudly waved above 37 temporary American cemeteries scattered throughout Europe, where the fallen had been laid to rest.