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except Ramona's uncle Charles Bradford Dingley IV,
misplaced in the second battle of the Marne, who was
there only in granite, larger than life in dress uniform,
hand on sword, naked Honor mourning at his feet.
Actually, all the male Dingleys in the direct line had been
lost at war, but only he had never been recovered and
returned home. Ramona now distributed flowers among
the heroes, from Elijah, lost in King William's War,
1689, and his son, Thomas Laud, lost in Queen Anne's
War, 1710, to Timothy, lost fighting for his King, only a
year after his estranged son Cutler died for the
Revolution at the battle of Long Island. Pausing while
Orchid pulled away weeds that covered the words,
Ramona motored among the softening stones. Philip
Elijah, lost under Perry at the battle of Lake Erie, father
of Charles Bradford Dingley, lost under Zachary Taylor
at Buena Vista. Charles Bradford II and Charles
Bradford III, shot within feet and within hours of each
other at Gettysburg. And so the old woman went along
the lineal path, to Beanie's father, Charles B.
Dingley V, lost in Hawaii, December 7, 1941.
"Bunch of idiots," Ramona told Orchid O'Neal, as