Tag: evergreen heritage
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Volunteers history sleuths find, celebrate, unsung heroes at Colorado Springs’ oldest cemeteries
Willard Wade McKinley was 17 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, the day after Christmas in 1942. He was weeks away from his 20th birthday when he died, one of seven sailors killed on May 17, 1945, after a kamikaze plane penetrated anti-aircraft fire and crashed into the USS Douglas H. Fox…