A century ago, in caverns now littered with coffee tins, wine bottles and other refuse, Connecticut soldiers carved and burned their names into the chalk walls. Some never returned home, and the signatures they left in the abandoned French quarries were the last marks they made in the world. Christine...
If These Walls Could Talk: 7 Stories Of Connecticut Soldiers Who Left Their Names In French Caves
Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant
Thu, 05/24/2018 - 9:15am
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