A Learning Experience

Quartermaster is in charge of sorting and burying the dead. Graves were moved multiple times, first buried at the battle site, then after time moved to a military cemetery elsewhere, then Quartermaster is in charge of sorting and burying the dead. Graves were moved multiple times, first buried at the battle site, then after time moved to a military cemetery elsewhere, then maybe moved again at the wishes of the family to a stateside grave. Pilots usually didn’t get graves, but memorials. Some crash reports explain clearly why bodies can’t be retrieved from a plane the crashed and burned. Maybe never found, MIA – Missing In Action. Detroit had the first population boom in the 1920’s with the first explanation of the city limits. The Township built a combined elementary and high school in 1915 on Grand River. Prior to this, the township didn’t have a high school; those few who could go on had to travel to a Detroit High School and the Township paid.  Quickly outgrown, a new high school was built by Redford in 1921 on Grand River Avenue and Waterford Road. It underwent several expansions and then in 1926 Detroit annexed two-thirds of the Township, taking several township schools with it. Old Redford closed in 2007, demolished for a Meijer store in 2012. Students came from all over Detroit. Primary close by neighborhoods included Rosedale Park, an upscale neighborhood with boulevards and stately homes, and also Brightmoor, a planned subdivision of often below standard housing for the large number of transplants from the south. Yes, it is important to state they were from the south as the building philosophy of B.E. Taylor, large scale developer, was that that the shoddy wood frame homes were better than what they had in Appalachia.