Veteran's Day is tomorrow, and even though the United States died this past Tuesday and was replaced by a Fascist country of bigots and racists called Trumpland, it is appropriate that we remember a forgotten and unrecognized U.S.A. veteran of World War I. Ralph Hoffman served in World War I. He is buried in the South Salem Cemetery at South Salem, Ohio. His grave had no flag and no veteran's memorial plaque. I thought it a disgrace to our formerly free country that his grave has been unmarked for all these years after his death. I had an extra flag so I put one on his grave myself. I hope that whoever decorates the graves next year will remember Ralph. I have attached pictures of Ralph Hoffman's grave, after I placed a flag upon it, and a 1915 picture of him when he was in the U.S. Army.


Ralph Hoffman was my mother's favorite uncle. My father also had a favorite uncle named Ralph, Ralph Miller. It was inevitable that I, the first son, should be named Ralph too, and so I was.
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