The Seventeen Service Members of Alton, Iowa Who Gave Their Lives #memorialday #veteran

A celebration of the service members from a small town who laid down their lives for the protection of the freedoms we enjoy. Of the seventeen, eleven of them occurred within a 4 1/2 year time span during World War II. Can you imagine how devastating that must have been for a small community where everyone knows everyone else? Take a moment to hear their stories.
-I’m gonna address the elephant in the room here: I was pushing to get this done for a Memorial Day release when I contracted a nasty head cold. It messed up my voice and had me gasping into the mic while attempting to record audio. I did my absolute best to make it sound decent, but… it is what it is. Sorry!
HUGE thank you to my wife and family for their patience during the long process of researching, meeting with folks, phone calls, day trips and editing this.
Credits and thank-you’s:
City of Alton, IA
Michael Treinen
Jim Schaap
Pluim Publishing, Orange City, IA
Dan Dykstra
Sharon Dalton – shdjdd1 via Ancestry.com
Alton Public Library
Alton Museum
Plymouth County Museum, Le Mars, IA
Patricia Kuhn
Rebecca McIntyre
Wife, friends and family
St. Mary Catholic Church, Alton IA
I guarantee I forgot several people/institutions and I am deeply sorry if I did!
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Church choir .png – image by pngtree.com
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Northwestern logo – By Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NW_Logo.jpg. Permission given from the college to User:Tlandegent to upload .jpg file.This image was created with Inkscape., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24999021
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By From a photograph of the tail of a replica of Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae at the Oklahoma History Center. Photographed and prepared for Wikipedia by Willy Logan., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3759687
Atsugi Air Base – By Yamaguchi Yoshiaki from Japan – Atugi air base, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24248625
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Imperial flag – By David Newton, uploader was Denelson83 – 自衛隊法施行令 and File:DSP Z 8702 C.pdf, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=798786
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TRACKS:
“Moonlight”
by Kris Keypovsky
Available at:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kris-keypovsky/single/moonlight/
License information:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Orchestra 2”
by Magenta Six
Available at:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/magenta-six/orchestra/orchestra-2/
License information:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Bittersweet”
by Mr Smith
Available at:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/mr-smith/guitarista/bittersweet/
License information:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
“Phenix unplugged”
by Koi-discovery
Is public domain
Available at:
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/koi-discovery/omega/phenix-unplugged/

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