It is Memorial Day weekend here in the USA. Besides a 3 day weekend, and the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day is a federal holiday for remembering the people who died while serving in the country's armed forces.
The gravestone reads:
In memory of our heros
Pvt. Henry N. Ostendorf
Co. M. 33. Div.
Born May 2.1894
Killed In Action
Aug. 7.1918
