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During March 1998, as a highlight to a strategic war game being held in Germany for members of the 28th Infantry Division the Divisional commander Maj. Gen. Walter Pudlowski used the final two days in Europe as an opportunity to revisit the battlefields fought over by past soldiers of the "Keystone" Division. Among the places the tour went to was the Kall Trail. |
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As the group walked through the area they met Herbert Trumm, (above right) an elderly forest worker, he had grown up in the area during the war and proceeded to lead the soldiers as their impromptu guide. |
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Herr Trumm led them to the spot where earlier in the year a GI's remains had been found, among them an ID disc. Above, Major General Pudlowski and fellow officers of 28th Infantry Division ponder the circumstances of a fellow soldiers death so far from home. |
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Herbert's helmet held by Pudlowski while another officer examines the remains of his rifle. The helmet holed by the shot that killed him. At right, the farmer on whose land Herbert had lain undiscovered. 6 March 1999 Lemuel M. Herbert was finally laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honours. A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania now among good company, home from the war. Maj. Gen. Pudlowski sums up with these words; "Seldom will you find a place where you can see where you were, where you are, and where you are going. We have just seen that place". |
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