VETERAN
Lewis J Shanko
Lewis J. Shanko
Private
May 16, 1911 – June 9, 1944
Lived 33 years
Yale Seventh Day Adventist Church · Virginia
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their countries wishes blest! When spring, with dewy fingers cold return to deck their hollowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod than fancy’s feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There HONOR comes, a pilgrim gray, to bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair the dwell, a weeping hermit, there! - William Collins
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1911
Born May 16
1917
Lewis was 6 when the United States entered World War I
1920
Lewis was 9 when Prohibition began
1928
Lewis was 17 when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin
1939
Lewis was 28 when World War II began in Europe
1941
Lewis was 30 when the United States entered World War II
1944
Passed away June 9, age 33
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