Dedication to a Soldier LbNA #50645 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 27, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Joliet |
| County: | Will |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | ABBCC  |
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| Found by: | Grandma YaYa |
| Last found: | Nov 13, 2009 |
| Status: | Fm |
| Last edited: | Sep 27, 2009 |
We dedicate this letterbox to our Grandpa Bill who served in WWII. We would have liked just a little more time with him to offer him one of his favorite chocolate chip cookies, but instead we will send you to visit him at the cemetery. You see, Grandpa Bill liked nothing better than to sit with a cup of coffee and visit awhile, often telling and retelling stories from the war. He never met anyone he didn't strike up a conversation with, and if he showed a preference for the ladies, who could blame him? He would tell you that the war made him who he was and that it was the single most defining time in his life.
So go and visit Grandpa. Say Hi and tell him why you are there-he would get a kick out of that. If you are a woman, go ahead and pat his headstone-he would like that too. :)
Go to the main entrance (W. Hoff Rd.) of Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery and enter the grounds.
Take the 1st left, indicated by the sign "cemetery entrance, all funerals"
Go down the beautiful avenue of trees and pass the visitor's center. (there are bathrooms, here if you need them :)
Look up and go towards the towering "star spangled banner" flying at the end of the road and turn right there.
Go past the bell towers, then turn right at the next street, Thomas Jefferson Circle.
You will pass a road and sign that says that road is "for cemetery vehicles only" so don't turn onto it but pull over because you are in the right section.
He is in section 8 which is on your left. His headstone is #1793 for William A. Lawrence, or just "Bill" to his friends. Go and pay your respects.
While stand in front, facing his headstone, look over your left shoulder, in about the 8:00 position. See the trees across the road, with the big stump in front of them?
Walk over to it, directly behind that stump, about 10' away, is a hollowed out log only about 3' long on the ground, perfect for our needs. You will find what you seek there.
Spend some time on the peaceful grounds too. There is a Memorial Walk that may interest you. Drop us a line and tell us how we did on our very 1st letterbox alawrence1@wi.rr.com
So go and visit Grandpa. Say Hi and tell him why you are there-he would get a kick out of that. If you are a woman, go ahead and pat his headstone-he would like that too. :)
Go to the main entrance (W. Hoff Rd.) of Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery and enter the grounds.
Take the 1st left, indicated by the sign "cemetery entrance, all funerals"
Go down the beautiful avenue of trees and pass the visitor's center. (there are bathrooms, here if you need them :)
Look up and go towards the towering "star spangled banner" flying at the end of the road and turn right there.
Go past the bell towers, then turn right at the next street, Thomas Jefferson Circle.
You will pass a road and sign that says that road is "for cemetery vehicles only" so don't turn onto it but pull over because you are in the right section.
He is in section 8 which is on your left. His headstone is #1793 for William A. Lawrence, or just "Bill" to his friends. Go and pay your respects.
While stand in front, facing his headstone, look over your left shoulder, in about the 8:00 position. See the trees across the road, with the big stump in front of them?
Walk over to it, directly behind that stump, about 10' away, is a hollowed out log only about 3' long on the ground, perfect for our needs. You will find what you seek there.
Spend some time on the peaceful grounds too. There is a Memorial Walk that may interest you. Drop us a line and tell us how we did on our very 1st letterbox alawrence1@wi.rr.com