ArlingtonHeights Memorial Day ceremony pays tribute to community's earliest fallen soldiers from the Civil War
The Civil War-era tune"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" preceded Arlington Heights' Memorial Day ceremony at which U.S. Army Pvt. John Sieburg was added to the list of the village's fallen 160 years after being fatally shot.
Their efforts didn't unearth any photographs or pinpoint their relative's unmarked grave, but they did find the documents able to turn the"unknown Sieburg" they'd known of at the start into the 5-foot, 4-inch, hazel-eyed, auburn-haired John Sieburg -- including the circumstances of his service, wounding and death at age 20 in Virginia.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service Among the distant relatives Nadine and her own family met at the ceremony were identical twins Linda and Nancy Hoffman, who moved to Arlington Heights after growing up in Chicago. And then there was Linda Lussman Warner, who spent most of her life in Arlington Heights before moving to Valparaiso, Indiana, relatively recently.
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