My great-uncle's footlocker has arrived safely to First Division Museum in Cantigny Park in Wheaton, IL. I snapped this photo at the Fedex office in White Plains, NY. They were extremely helpful in helping me bring it inside from the car. John died at the Battle of Cantigny on May 28, 1918. This trunk was sent back to his mother, Sara Curry, who kept it at her house in Plains, PA. Decades later, the Corcoran family, who bought the house from Sara, found me. They had kept the footlocker safe all those years. I'm happy that John's footlocker is going to the museum where it can be seen by so many people.
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