Here's to Debbie Peevyhouse!This is
another nice story about somebody honoring our heroes:
Thanks to persistence, passion and a bit of verbal strong-arming, Debbie Peevyhouse of San Jose -- an amateur genealogist and avid military historian -- has collected enough money and convinced enough of the right people to place a small bronze emblem on the crypt of a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient who died in 1946.
The ceremony to honor Marine Sgt. Edward Alexander Walker is scheduled for Sept. 10 at Oak Hill Memorial Park.Walker won the prestigious medal for his bravery in China fighting in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900-01. Other than his name, though, his crypt is bare. And aside from some short, fading newspaper clippings about his activities in veterans' groups in San Jose, little else is known about him.Here's
some more discussion of Edward Alexander Walker, hero.
