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Message:: [QUOTE="charley, post: 5423394, member: 5372"]that is very kind of you, and humbling.don't be sorry, at all. i celebrate her life as a testament to the american spirit. her husband died during the war. she had 4 children.he was cherokee. she lived out her life at cherokee,nc.he is buried @ arlington. that was the reason (i think) that she collected the 1945 cents.we delivered them. the auxiliary was the recipient. they use donations for flowers, flags, etc.my oldest 2 brothers insisted one mason jar be placed on her 1st husband's grave.then it was decided another jar be placed on the grave of her second husband. he is interred on patton hill. it is sort of funny, because he was a military lifer, and many many years later when he died, she said, no more. it was hard enough getting rid of those 2. anyway, i am hijacking the thread, and that was not my purpose. but, like any collector, my evil side always wanted to open the jars and look through them....even up to the time they  were delivered to arlington. i still now and then regret not doing so. this is just another reason she can still complain about me.[/QUOTE]