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James Sidway was a cousin. I did not know him, but I am struck that his service as a private in World War I was what the family chose to put on this marker, decades after that war.

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Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

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Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

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Hidden away in a glade, this rock lists the names of some 700 local men and about 10 women who died in the military in World War I. It reminds me of a dragon's tooth of Greek myth.

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This dramatically posed casualty lies under a rearing horse and rider on a war monument that celebrates what Americans call the Spanish American War of 1898. With the dreadful American Civil War slipping from memory, this little imperial adventure, the conquest of Cuba and the Philippines, involved only 3200 U.S. dead, of whom 3000 died of tropical diseases. It's romantic style receded as succeeding wars became more dreadful.

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war memorials don't usuall emphasize this-1898

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World War I memorial dominates the crossroads on the main road into and out of town. Famous lines from the1914 Robert Laurence Binyon poem, For the Fallen, are inscribed on the base.