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thedrifter
11-19-07, 12:54 PM
Home sought for vet gravestone found in trash
The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Nov 19, 2007 7:22:33 EST

CARROLLTON, Ga. — A veterans group is trying to find the final resting place of a World War II soldier whose grave marker was found in a Dumpster.

H.A. Whitman, a member of the Carrollton chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, says he and other veterans have checked county cemetery records and called the Department of Veterans Affairs, but the group hasn’t turned up any answers to where the body of James Shackleford is buried.

The paint-splattered grave marker shows Shackleford lived from 1919 to 1979 and served as a private in the Army. It was turned over to the Carroll County Sheriff’s department who asked area veterans to track down where the marker belongs.

Ellie