Greetings Carolyn and List Members, REFERENCE: Carolyn's Post "Could you tell us if this reference is only for Veterans who were killed in action or would it include Veterans who died years later from war related illness?" Now that "the cat is out of the bag", so to speak..... after my response to Gene's recent post, I'll clarify and also answer Carolyn's question..... Military veterans have always been a special interest group to me (but not just because of my own military service). Because of that interest, I began working some time ago on creating a database of Chickasaw County Veterans. At present I have a little over 1,000 records in the database and am not finished entering all the source data I have. My original source data comes from a not very familiar or understood source, but it is the Military Graves Registration Program, under the Department of Veterans Affairs. In Chickasaw County the existing records are not necessarily complete, but include grave registrations beginning with the Civil War and then on to the Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korea, VietNam and also non-combat/peacetime service periods. As you may recall, Gene's post/query asked if there was a record in regard to his Uncle Joe CERO who was killed in WWII. Unfortunately, there is not a record for him in the data I'm working with. There are a few records for servicemen killed in action, but they are by far a smaller percentage of the whole. The records generally pertain to Chickasaw County Iowa veterans who have died and were buried in Chickasaw County (although there are even exceptions to that, as I have seen deceased veterans who died in Chickasaw County, BUT were then buried elsewhere. So you can't really make hard & fast rules.) Gene's query has motivated me to dig deeper. I am going to work on researching the category of Killed in Action Veterans from Chickasaw County and perhaps the entire state of Iowa and see where it takes me. In fact, I've placed two significant phone calls this afternoon. Please be patient with me, as I have this and several other big projects in work right now.... all of which are important, but all of which are very DEMANDING on me and my time. One thing that I can tell you is that I do have the names of the Chickasaw County Iowa Veterans killed in action during WWI. Over the weekend I will try to find the time to post this information to the list for the benefit of you all. Stay-tuned...... this is an on-going research effort on my part and will take time. In the meantime, I will do searches for List Members (only) for the data I currently have. Hope this is of interest and help to you. -Jannette