Julia Semont Chenot

This is my great, great grandma. I found this completely by accident while searching for genealogy stuff on the internet. I searched her name and it came back as being listed on peoplewesearch.com - it's a website devoted to finding owners of pictures found in flea markets and antique malls with hopes of reuniting it with family. The owner of the site said she found this at the St. Charles Antique Mall and on the back was written "Julia Semont Chenot-grandma". Unfortunately, she had already sold the original to a descedent but is going to email them my information. The picture below is the scanned copy of the original. Freaky.

Citizen Soldier - Theodore John Sartori - 7/7/1924 - 3/13/1945

I just recently found out that my grandpa's cousin died on Iwo Jima. As you can see he was a Marine and just shy of his 21st birthday. I happened to stumble across his name doing some genealogy research. Theodore, or more than likely called Ted, was my grandpa Lefty's first cousin. My mom who was 12 when he died remembers her dad and uncles discussing him. According to the interment records, his parents and family didn't get to bury him until the war was over and his body shipped home - not until 1948. The overwhelming sadness his parents must have felt is unimaginable.
Old men create wars but it's the young men that fight and die in them.
Rest easy.