![]() It was during those years that newspapers serving McDonald County reported on the receipt of those somber Western Union telegrams that began with the words, “I regret to inform you.” During World War II those telegrams were sent to families in McDonald County, Missouri.įor more than four long years men and women calling McDonald County home left their homes with determination in their hearts a resolve to serve their country and protect the freedoms we now all so dearly cherish. Those telegrams were sent to cities both large and small and to counties both rural and metropolitan. Those life-shattering telegrams expressed the regrets of the country and offered as much information as possible regarding the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the lost loved ones. ![]() The method agreed upon was that of a Western Union telegram message. It was decided that a method needed to be established when notifying the family of fallen men and women. Other wars followed this nation’s terrible Civil War and more brave men and women died. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. Bixby’s sons, President Abraham Lincoln sent a letter to the grieving mother of five brave and departed patriots. ![]() A great war was raging in 1864 and as is the case in any war, young men and women would die.
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