'Lawrenceburg' Tagged Posts

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HEARTS THAT REMEMBER

Dana Keeton told the story in The Democratic Union newspaper of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee: The sun had just risen on a hot August day in 1944 in the small village of Plelo in German-occupied France. The 15-year-old boy did not know why he and the other citizens of Plelo had been lined up in front of a firing squad in the middle of the town square. Perhaps they were being punished for harboring a unit of Marquisards, the French underground fighters.…