Harold H. Wright 1888-1918

It's Memorial Day in the USA. Inscription: Pvt Harold H. "Connie" Wright. Company H, 30th U.S. Infantry, 6th Brigade, 3rd Division, American Expeditionary Forces. Born June 13th, 1888. Killed in action July 15, 1918, at the Second Battle of the Marne, near Chateau-Thierry, France. "I have fought the good fight. I have finished my course."

North Watertown Cemetery, 811 Bradley Street, Watertown, NY, 13601.

Burnsides Park in Providence - and Ambrose himself

Local Providence boy who made (semi-) good, Burnsides' name is most widely known for two things: his unique style of whiskers appropriately named "burnsides," and a small bridge spanning Antietam Creek in Maryland, where on a particularly hot day in September of 1862 a fairly large number of Union men went to their death attempting to force a crossing.

 Burnsides is buried, alongside his wife, in Swan Point Cemetery on the east side of the city.

I have no idea what the significance of this is -- perhaps representing the sinking of the state of Rhode Island